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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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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