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are you conscious of what you're doing?
what is consciousness?
is it simply being awake?  does it involve thinking?  or is it perhaps just being able to react to what happens around you in a way that most ensures survival?
does it involve making judgements or opinions?  does it involve understanding?  how much?  
is it there when you are asleep?  in a coma? dead?  are those things different?
is it being alert when you drive in traffic? or avoiding collisions and obstacles on a bike?
is it being informed about something bigger than you that you cannot qualify or quantify with your means?
is it there when you take a life? whether it be a plant or animal?  does that plant or animal lose its consciousness to you?  does it change if you use your own hand or a third party, like a gun?
does it involve knowing of the outcomes?  or imagining them? or understanding them?
does it feel?  does it emote?  does it love?
is it being aware of our inexplicable interconnectedness to all, all action and reaction and the natural outcome of the universe in each infinite moment?