What’s Behind Consciousness? Two Mind-Bending Concepts You’ll Never See Coming

You’ve been bamboozled.

Consciousness isn’t the big deal you think it is.

Sure, it’s the thing that lets you walk, talk, and convince yourself you’re awake, but that’s just the tip of the iceberg. Ask yourself: What’s behind all this?

What if I told you that consciousness is just a survival mechanism, and beyond it lies something far more unsettling? Something you can’t even experience with the tools you’ve got right now. Something unknown. And unknown in a way that’s so unknown, it’s unknowable…

…yeah, welcome to the great cosmic joke.

Consciousness: A Fancy Tool for Navigating Illusion

Here’s the deal: Consciousness is like an iPhone.

It’s slick, it’s evolved, and it gets the job done. But what if the iPhone only showed you the things Apple wanted you to see? Now, imagine your mind is that iPhone, and Apple is the evolutionary drive that made you need to function in this world.

The apps? Thoughts, emotions, perceptions. All programmed to keep you alive and reproducing. Consciousness lets you navigate, interpret, and make sense of a reality that, by the way, isn’t even real. It’s a finely tuned…