What is consciousness? Now, of course, I've talked a lot about the theory of

consciousness and what it is and explained it to you many times in the past, but that's not what we're going to do here today.

Today I want to, instead of giving you more theory and more stories and explanation,

I want to actually guide you through some examples and point you directly to consciousness.

So this will be a hands-on exercise and while we're doing these various exercises here,

you will hopefully be able to grasp a little bit of it, start to feel it for yourself,

and also I will reveal some pretty amazing properties of consciousness as we go.

So let's get into that.

So let's begin by just becoming aware or conscious that you are conscious right now.

So can you notice that difference

between when you started this recording, of course you were conscious when you

started it before I even started talking.

But when I told you that you're conscious right now, what I did is I triggered you to self-reflect, in a sense, and to become conscious of the fact that you're conscious.

And just by telling you that, that already... of the fact that you're conscious.

And just by telling you that, that already put you a little bit more in touch with

consciousness because usually you're taking consciousness for granted because your consciousness

is focused on other things like the things that I'm telling you, some idea or some physical object out in the world.

But right now, just become conscious of the fact that you're conscious.

And wonder, what is that?

What is that? What is that consciousness?

What is that?

It should feel mysterious.

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