>>12064164>What is consciousness?The mind's awareness of itself.
>Is it fundamental to reality? Probability not. It's emergent from the non-conscious matter making up the brain.
>Does it need to exist for reality to exist?No, brains took a long time to develop.
>If a tree falls in a forest and no one is around to observes it, did it really fall?Yes, because the information from the tree falling was able to spread out into the surrounding environment.
Humans are not the center of the universe, we are merely a product of it.
