Question by jhall20032003: Please read fully; Is it possible that we are “aliens” in a sense…?
Is it possible that our consciousness, or whatever makes up our awareness is that of an alien species. I know it sounds crazy but here me out. Our consciousness could be a form of alien and we inhabit this human body at birth and therefore “we” are both a human being and an alien at the same time simultaneously. Our human body has free will and goes through this life and our consciousness is just inside of each one of us observing how the human mind works. Like we are studying this species the closest way possible, by in Essenes being in them. When this human body’s life comes to an end we study a different species in a different universe (you must first fully grasp the concept of a universe to fully understand what I am saying). We are all one collective consciousness and we can travel into different universes to study what exists. Granted in a different universe the same laws of physics would not apply so there is no way our human mind can even grasp the concept of another universe (because we are of this universe). Anyone still with me?
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Answer by Johnson
I’m still with you. And it is certainly an interesting concept. Although, I’m not sure why you chose to separate consciousness and free will. I’m not really sure if I can contribute anything, really. My only comment was on your decision to separate the two. I suppose that would be another version, though, if the “alien” part of “us” made its own decisions, similar to certain parasites.
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I can totally get you. We should meet for the coffee
Consciousness does not exist separate of the brain. Apart from the obvious q’s such as what does it consist of, where is it ? When specific parts of the brain are damaged or degenerate (eg dementia) we lose that aspect of consciousness – ability to concentrate, remember, carry out certain actions etc. This idea that it is separate ‘the ghost in the machine hypothesis’ has been discredited for a long time due to lack of evidence and our increasing understanding of how our brain generates consciousness
I understand what you are saying, there’s many ways you can put it though, hear my theory, what if our mind was all made up, that every memory in our brain was just a random collection of space fillers, we wouldn’t know, because we wake up “knowing” what we did yesterday, but really those are just memories in our organic brain, we may remember when we scratched our finger yesterday, but it can also be a made up memory by our brain to cleverly match what is going on around us.