how would we come to know anything definitive about this particular question?
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IMO the most likely, and simplest hypothesis is that we are primates with creative minds. These minds can imagine that they transcend matter. It's rather cute. But also very silly.
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by far the most parsimonious view, which is a major epistemic advantage. from a Buddhist perspective it has the side-effect of concluding that one attains nirvana by default at the moment of death.
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All of this academic masturbation around consciousness is certainly intellectually interesting, but I find it more useful to cultivate a deep practice.
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