What a beautiful response! Thanks so much for that. And I agree with everything you say as well. I'm particularly charmed by the idea that our brain, or brain in conjunction with other body-parts and/or gut fauna, function as receivers of an omnipresent consciousness. Like how you can tune a radio to receive a specific station, our brains could be tuned to receive our specific portion of that consciousness, so to speak. This would also explain how "our" consciousness can change when the brain (the antenna) is damaged...

In the end though, we don't know, so I'm open to all possible explanations...

Thanks again! :-)