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==== Here are some key ideas: ====

===== - The brain produces consciousness. =====
* Consciousness is an emergent property of complex information processing.
* Think: Enough circuits and you get awareness, like heat from friction.

===== - Consciousness is fundamental — like space or time. =====
* Even tiny particles might have proto-consciousness.
* The brain doesn’t create it — it channels or organizes it.

===== - Consciousness is the ground of being. =====
* The material world arises within consciousness, not the other way around.
* Think: dreams feel real while you’re in them — maybe waking life is a kind of dream too.

===== - Your consciousness is not seeing the world as it is, only a useful interface (like a desktop screen). =====
* Donald Hoffman argues we evolved to see icons, not reality.
* What we call "physical reality" may be a translation — like VR goggles on something we can’t perceive directly.