Science

I hear you.

I was taking a stab at why we never bothered to look for consciousness in babies interactions with the environment before. It does seem an obvious place to look now but considering half of us are still caught on I think there fore I am, I can see why they never bothered to look here.

In Buddhism the ego is sort of a filter of consciousness. Rick Doblin from MAPs said in a podcast I was listening to recently that babies are in the psychedelic state, like egolessness from 5-meo and shit. And that base structure is still there. So it's the base human experience and arises with the environment and then we filter everything through the ego. Including our questions about consciousness itself right? Because it's our lived experience so we're looking through something that's similar.