• NarrativeBear@lemmy.world
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    3 days ago

    Well put, this was my training of thought as well.

    As a analogy, our body is the Universe. Our fingernails (the moon) do not experience themselves or have any awareness of their own existence. Our mind (a living thing) knows and experiences our fingernails and is aware of its own existence.

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      3 days ago

      As far as I’m concerned, we’re atoms that understand we’re atoms. That’s the universe witnessing itself.