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Originally Posted by John Wilkes Booth
And when I think about the fact that our brains are a part of the tiny tiny percentage of matter in the known universe with the capacity for consciousness, I usually think of that as an amazing privilege rather than a burden to bear, though it is admittedly both.
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Indeed. It makes one wonder whether consciousness is an integral part of the universe, whether the universe 'wants' to be conscious, or maybe want is a poor choice of words, if the universe is arranged in such a way that consciousness is common and unavoidable. Or is consciousness a crazy fluke that happened amidst crazy odds. Either way it's pretty remarkable that the same stuff in rocks and stars and water can evolve to the point where it can ask 'what am I'. It's quite nuts.