In other words - What we normally consider as "us" or "me" is an accumulated collective of memories, knowledge, habits, culture and beliefs (etc.) but the foundation for all of our consciousness is ultimately without a "True" or pre-determined meaning, theme, or background, and remains only an assumption made by our individual brains.
* Consider what you knew as a baby, seeing the world for the first time, then consider the knowledge and experience that has created all the layers that makes you as a person say "this is me and mine". Yet even as a baby, there are countless psychological processes and interactions that result in a "you" that was there before you were born. If you were to take away all these aspects of "you," anything that remains would be meaningless, or inhuman, to you.
* If you were to remove all your memories, habits and all the things you identify as you, you could not consider what is left behind because it is no longer within the realm of human understanding and ideas.
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