Whether consciousness is implanted in us by something divine, or whether it is created by the efforts of our brains, the end result is the same. We are.
What you believe matters, however. It__ all anyone has to act on. And since what you do is who you are, your actions define you. If you don__ believe anything is true simply because you can__ logically prove what__ true, you won__ do anything. You won__ be anything. You__l end up spending your life in a rocking chair looking out at the horizon waiting for an answer that never comes. You might as well be dead. It__ an old philosophical problem.
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What you believe matters, however. It__ all anyone has to act on. And since what you do is who you are, your actions define you. If you don__ believe anything is true simply because you can__ logically prove what__ true, you won__ do anything. You won__ be anything. You__l end up spending your life in a rocking chair looking out at the horizon waiting for an answer that never comes. You might as well be dead. It__ an old philosophical problem.
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Briefly summarising, we can express the proposed law thus: consciousness is bound up with learning in organic substance; organic competence is unconscious. Still more briefly, and put in a form which is admittedly rather obscure and open to misunderstanding: Becoming is conscious, being unconscious.
And he was. Suddenly. From not being to being conscious that he was.
We are consciousness examining and expressing itself so that it can become increasingly aware of its infinite capacity for being and evolving.