Consciousness and Minimal Self

Our knowledge of consciousness is only our own individual consciousness. So when we think about what consciousness is, only we can do is thinking based on your own consciousness. From this stand point, it very much seems to us that it is impossible to think consciousness without the image of fisrt person perspective, can be also interpreted as "minimal self." So I think the mechanisms of consciousness is closely related to the mechanisms that give rise to minimal self. They are practicaly the same thing. 

However, there is an interesting fact that override the fact. It's called "Ego Death."

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