I don't know why there are so many disputes over what consciousness is. Consciousness is pure awareness. There is an infinite amount of levels of potential awareness that can be experienced by consciousness.
Ultimately there is no self - consciousness has no identity.
Ultimately there is no thinker - thinking and feeling is part of the experience our consciousness is currently having.
Quoting: Focused_Intent The term "pure awareness"
MAKES NO SENSE.
Any awareness has a point of
origin.
That point of origin immediately sets up a duality; the duality of a consciousness and what that consciousness is aware of; that is, the "self" is aware of the "not self".
This is simply
inescapable.
If you 'think' this is
not inescapable, what that means is that you are too enmeshed in the duality--you are still on the moving train--rather than standing in the train station in the "observing consciousness".
Your statement about "infinite amount of levels of potential awareness" is further evidence of the tenaciousness of the attachment to thought. It has no reality other than thought.
In any case, my consciousness has an identity. I am 'over here' and you are 'over there'. My experiences are different than yours; both of my "self" as well as my 'thinker'.
Denial that consciousness has any identity is a metaphysical fantasy-land no better than 'heaven' and 'hell'.
The
structures and
mechanisms of the consciousnesses of the "self" and the consciousnesses of the 'thinker' are
IDENTICAL.
It is the
contents that differ in terms of experiences, memories, thoughts, etc.
And those contents of consciousness mean different identities.
Michael
