You have never experienced the outside world. Only your brain-mediated construction of it. A virtual world in your head. Hence the intuitive sense that the world is “conscious” (which it’s probably not.) It’s arising in a conscious brain. 


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Subjectively, the environment is within you. The environment arises within consciousness. So it depends on how you ask the question, or what you mean you mean by “confined.”
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it might benefit to use cognition/consciousness and awareness as discrete terms that provide a different function.
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@spacecrone is pointint to the ‘selfing’ that happens when we link the various cognitive inputs into a provisional whole. Maybe? -
Yes, that’s what I understood. I was responding to that idea by reframing it.
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I’m beginning to think that consciousness has been over-hyped and over-played. Human consciousness is ‘merely’ the brain’s ability to monitor its own processes—and only 10% of brain process is conscious
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Almost certainly it’s overhyped (as God, Eternity, Buddha Nature, etc. etc.). It’s probably just as you describe it. On the other hand, in a way, it’s all we’ve got.
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would that it were.
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Its a subjective reality which we think is very objective and there lies the ignorance that brings suffering. So beautiful!
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