The Science of Consciousness

I believe I said something startling in my previous blog. One could have still missed it. Not because you aren't agile. But possibly because I could have stated it in a clumsy manner. Let me redo it again for you and take off from that single point. "I am basically a thinking spirit and I could equally say 'I am not this', just as I continue to harp 'I am this and that'. If you remember, I concluded by saying it isn't wrong to believe 'I am this body and this mind' but it's simply a beginning of the evolutionery stage. Just a simple argument is sufficient to prove that my presumption of self is either wrong or imperfect. My body as we know is a mingling of the cells of my parents and it continues to depend even now on lots of physical sources such as food, water and air existing outside this body. Hence how could I ever say 'I starts from this body alone'? My brain which is not sufficiently developed to see the links of physical rea