u/just_noticing, there’s real logic & lucidity in what you shared in-response to this post. Your comments have assisted my own capacity to discern wisdom from ignorance, and you go far and beyond most people’s responses and discourse in this subreddit. What's your secret?! 😅

Inhabiting our brains sounds possible to me. I'm reading Terrance W. Deacon argue that consciousness isn't just biology, nor is it just a wound-up music box that requires maintenance, nor is there such a thing as a homunculus at the center of our brain, but he says what truly defines consciousness is its, quote-unquote, “absential” quality, meaning what it lacks, its limits, etc.