The first one requires an active participation of an individual thinker.
It is an invitation to reflect on oneself in relationship to the stuff of Evolution that’s been going long before any human could contemplate on it.
The second is just a toss out line. It’s plenty true, totally true, absolutely true, been said in countless ways and discovered by countless thinkers - we are star dust bound together by gravity and the laws of physics - but that doesn’t tell us anything about our selves, or our place in it, or our “self’s” relationship with ourself to the world of our day to day.
The first is a challenge to think about one’s own relationship with the world we are embedded within. To truly appreciate of yourself, your body as belonging to another creature within Earth’s pageant of Evolution.
Not only am I the product of all the days I’ve lived, but on a level we can barely perceive, my body is the product of a lineage of creature’s going back to the beginnings of time itself.
My body created my brain, that brain collects information from more places and modes that we know as we go about our lives. What we do know makes clear that brain produces mind, metaphorically the same way a dynamo creates an electrical charge. Our brain doesn’t process a bunch of codes and algorithms, information comes in swarms and potentials, and networked layers upon layers of interconnections and complexities.
Everything through your body, processed through your brain, all that awareness, must get reflected, (why else would it have ever started?)
that’s where your consciousness is found - honed by hundreds of millions of generations, living, learning, leaving a legacy behind - a reflection of your entire body processing more information that we are aware off.
For instance, for some reason your philosophy makes it really easy to draw “Berlin Walls” between stuff, such as your stark distinction consciousness and subconsciousness, as if the two aren’t constantly in varying levels of communication.
Visualizing the physical source of consciousness.
Human Connectome Project - Harvard
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