[Menas KafatosModerator Upvotes: 41 votes@menask]

Consciousness is the underlying reality. It is what makes humans ask this kind of question. Human construct in the sense of experiencing ourselves as conscious beings. Of course the word con-scious sort of indicates a duality, being aware of something else or somebody else. But in fact, it is Awareness itself which gives rise to what we call conscious phenomena (the qualities of experience).

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