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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That doesn’t mean the external world isn’t real, simply that your experience of it is a construction. The suffering of beings isn’t unreal.
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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?2 replies 0 retweets 2 likes
Yes, that’s what I understood. I was responding to that idea by reframing it.
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