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mind-body problem examines how consciousness inhabits the physical body—the machine. Some describe it as a "ghost in the machine," but a clearer way to understand it is that consciousness and the body are two poles of the same reality, much like hot and cold. Matter and consciousness are not separate but complementary expressions of the same fundamental essence. Consciousness exists in many layers. Our temporal consciousness—our temporary Ātman—is a projection/Creation of the eternal Ātman (our eternal Self), which is part of Brahman—the infinite, eternal, all-encompassing, and omnipresent Consciousness. As our temporal Ātman descends into the physical realm, the body materializes through biological processes, beginning with the zygote.
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