do you think the powerful feeling of existing is manufactured and exaggerated by our own minds? meaning the development of religion, spiritual and meditative practices? Like it is just a by product of having so many neurons? i believe this but to me that does not make living any less real. it's also really easy to doubt my own convictions. don't know how to be stronger. every possibility exists at the same time, so i'm always choosing and shifting to one of those possibilities
possibilities is what makes consciousness what it is. Any time there are multiple choices to choose from, that's where consciousness arises. If there is only 1 choice, then that choice is the only choice and there is nobody there to care