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Understand from the first this certainty—butterflies don’t write books, neither do lilies or violets—which doesn’t mean they don’t know, in their own way, what they are—that they don’t know they are alive—that they don’t feel, that action upon which all consciousness sits, lightly or heavily.

―Mary Oliver

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What is this?

―Zen contemplation

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Poem: Consciousness

Poem: Full Consciousness

Poem: The New Brain

Poem: The Philosophy Professor Discusses the Nature of the Self-Conscious Mind

Poem: Goldenrod

Poem: Imaginary Number

Panpsychism

Hard problem of consciousness

Stream of consciousness (psychology)

Stream of consciousness (literary device)

God, Human, Animal, Machine

Consciousness

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