Consciousness. Top down. Man animals ameba. Light switches off or not till quarks

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For example, there has been intense debate over whether the

individual self is intrinsically a doer of actions or whether the agency

(doership) of the self is merely a consequence of adjunct conditions, such as

being housed in a material body. Interestingly, Shankara himself did not shy

away from parinamavada, but strongly held that the agency of the self is not

intrinsic to it. A number of such interpretative issues arising from the

Brahmasutra continue to be debated to this day, among Advaitins, Dvaitins,

Visishtadvaitins and Bhedabhedins