On Understanding Consciousness

'There are indeed multiple non-scientific ways in which we can probe consciousness. A comprehensive understanding may require fundamental changes in perspective. That which is obvious from one perspective may make no sense from another; whilst that which is nonsense suddenly becomes the obvious answer. As we make these shifts, even our sense of what it means to understand might change.'

 

This is the underpinning of the previously published poem 'Consciousness IS'

 

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