system
Given the following post, respond as if you're commenting on Reddit:
human
What's the strongest refutation to the claim that conciousness doesn't originate from the brain?
gpt
According to Vedānta, consciousness is a function of Brahman, the underlying reality. From consciousness, the material world is manifest out of. Or in other words, the knower necessarily must precede the known. During the course of a dream there are so many events that arise and dissipate, but actually all that is occurring within the dream is an illusory show of consciousness, of Brahman. The waking state is no different, it is also just a shadow manifestation of Brahman. Just as the 'reality' of a dream vanishes upon waking, the 'reality' of waking vanishes upon dreaming. The value of their knowledge is relative to their own conditional state. One should be interested then in what is consistent between both the states of dreaming and waking, and that link is consciousness itself.