# Actual Freedom ~ Frequently Asked Questions Frequently Asked Questions ## What is Consciousness?
| What is consciousness? Is consciousness material? If yes is matter that forms consciousness conscious of itself? Is consciousness in the body, or the body in consciousness? If you mix together the elements from whom the body is made in the right analogy, will consciousness take place?
| You are speaking about PCE’s. What is consciousness? You are explaining me the manifestation of consciousness. I had asked you what is consciousness per se, in itself. * I am asking you is your consciousness different from mine, in which way? If you answer me that your consciousness is pure consciousness, then you differentiate between states of consciousness. How you know you are not in an altered state of consciousness?
| What is ‘consciousness’ without thought? What exactly is ‘self-less’ awareness, which apparently can exist without thought? What is consciousness for that matter? What about it makes it ‘pure’?
| The problem with a serious discussion of such a chain of statements leading to a particular statement is simply, that it is too much work to unravel every step. Especially so, because you never give in to anything. You never admit that you make a mistake, not even on the plain of thought and thinking. And that, while even in your actualism position this is no ‘sin’ (pardon me the expression), because you have distantiate your identity from your thinking. And thinking can always make mistakes, even in you, without it discrediting your position in any way.
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