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I think if you're speaking literally then yes, consciousness must emerge from some of the oldest (and therefore "deepest") structures of the brain. It depends what you mean by consciousness though. If it's being self-aware or able to feel emotions like fear and rage, then it's in the limbi...

You mean to go nuts? Yeah, I can see how suffering can help a person go nuts. What follows is going to be a ridicule of your crazy talk: Kill yourself... the easiest way of liberating yourself from the material world ^^ You cease to exist, a corpse takes your place and lots of worms are gonna be re...

I presumed you are academically based thus has reasonable intellectual competence. Surely you cannot judge the ideology of a religion from few Muslims or even the majority. Example, the essence and ethos of what is Nazism is contained with Mein Kempf literally, i.e. not based on the subjective opin...