I take it from a reductive analysis that our consciousness is not particularly centralized, that it's a distributed phenomenon of the mind... thus in some sense it decomposes (or just lies potentially released) in the neurons. Since single celled creatures, not unlike, but merely less specialized cells show intentionality, it seems to me, our neurons most likely have it. Having felt this way a long time, I have tried to visualize how I would be having my experience, unaware of theirs, and they having theirs, unaware of mine. I think a metaphor that illustrates how this composition might work shows that we do experience each other's consciousness, similarly to h ow a listener might experience a chorus. A chorus is made of individual voices, you can even at times isolate out a particular voice from the din, or at least particular sections of the chorus. On the other hand, the chorus tends to blend together and become an altogether more powerful and complex voice than any individual singer, since it is composed of individual singers.
I think our consciousness is like the sound of the whole chorus together, and the neurons are the singers.
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