Consul wrote: ↑July 4th, 2019, 11:51 am ...one and the same thing can look different from different perspectives or points of view.I look at my brain and see what happens there as I am looking at my brain, and I see correlations and make a catalog of them. Now I finally see what I am: I am what happens in my brain. My brain processes and my consciousness correlate, so they must be identical, and I am nothing but my brain processes.
If you want to call this 'identity', you can do so, but I would say it is misuse of language. As an individual I am my consciousness and as an experiencer I am the subject of my experiences. And what is important, I am not my body. The “point of view” you speak of, the I, does not belong to the world.
Anyway: if my brain processes stop so that I die, my world disappears, my existence is canceled, and the whole world ceases to exist if there is no one else for whom it could exist. So existence is subjective or in relation to subjective, there is no other rational meaning of 'existence'.
So theoretically, and paradoxically, the apocalypse can take place with nearly nothing changing in the world. But I do not believe in an apocalypse. I believe in eternal existence.
Matter is an abstraction.