Explain your own consciousness. How do you exist? What causes your conscious self?
There are some prevailing theories, philosophies, cosmologies, theologies etc we could discuss but I'd really, in the tradition of Socrates, to get out of the jargon and hear what the everyday perspective is to this deep question.
Is there a soul? What is the mind? If (or if not) the mind is the soul (ie, the soul is the source of consciousness) how does it operate? Is consciousness just a chemical reaction like strict evolutionary psychologist postulate? But how can our individual minds, personalities, experiences, lives themselves simply be the result of chemicals in the brain? What is the mechanism behind the chemicals? What causes them to react in the first place? Is it the conscious mind, the soul perhaps? This is NOT a religious thread, this is philosophy, science, psychology, cosmology etc. THOUGH.. if your perspective in explaining consciousness involved the model or theory of a particular religious or spiritual viewpoint by all means contribute
