Consciousness

Here is an excellent Comment I read and wanted to share:

Buddha describes what we call consciousness as nothing more then the chemical product of sensation. The brain is the instrument for the recording of sensation. Thoughts remind us of previous experiences or previous experiences are retained to become in a sense sensors over new testimony. The mind can retain the imagery of its own processes and will retain the estate which it has achieved by the interpretation of sensory phenomena. This will continue and will survive and will ultimately be capable of informing a new body so that the individuals' mental life can transferred from one form to another and being so transferred it retains that degree of judgment or coordination which it has previously attained and when the new brain is available it simply continues to receive further stimuli to coordinate these in terms of its own attainment.

written by Jerd Guillaume-Sam