So have you considered that maybe the _real_ reason you can't understand consciousness, is that anybody who _does_ understand consciousness, ceases to have qualia once they see how that process works? So, anthropically, you find yourself mysteriously not understanding.
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The tao that can be told
is not the eternal Tao
The name that can be named
is not the eternal Name. The unnamable is the eternally real.
Naming is the origin
of all particular things.
I'd settle for a model of the eternal Tao, even though it isn't the eternal Tao itself!
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