In: Psychology
why me is me ,why not someone else
It works the other way around. Every animal body that has a brain produces attention. Consciousness is the act of paying attention to some mental event such as thoughts, images, memories, moods, emotions and sensations. The grammar you used, “my” consciousness and “my” body is not quite right. You, the narrative self, do not own anything (although it’s a useful illusion that the narrative self feels possessive toward the body it finds itself in as well as the consciousness the body produces for survival purposes). “You” are a product of the thought stream, one of the mental events which the attention of “your” body pays attention to. Every body that has a brain, even an insect, produces attention, a current of electricity conducted on nerve fibers, that in humans is connected to the other brain structures where those mental events occur.
The body has experiences, stores them as memories, and in the human body which has a brain that constructs a narrative self, that self emerges from those experiences as a story of the history of those experiences. The only way I know of to get a clear view of all this is to learn how to shut off the internal monologue that supports the story of the self. Once the self is stopped, everything clears up. There is no “person” in here; that’s an illusion which does serve a certain evolutionary purpose in the lives of human beings who depend on each other for survival.