A potential solution to the hard problem It operates as a duality. Our consciousness and I - me and my cosciousness - works as a twosome. Just like there's a hard drive in computers, and then using it we access various things. We can experience, we see. So when we are sleeping, we are not unconscious but we are not conscious, not aware of our surroundings. A loud noise or alarm will wake us up. The duality ensures a silent built in alarm is there to wake us up each morning much like the rooster doing the kuk du koo each morning. Because of the duality, we can see ourselves. We can feel, think, know, analyze, synthesize and understand. We can be aware of all experiences. Distanced? I can know myself, be aware, be conscious of myself, see myself, but not distanced from my consciousness, i will not understand me. So the me that is i, perceives the consciousness at a distance from me. Where is this consciousness of mine? Where the thinking, feeling, knowing and understanding is? It is all in the cosmic consciousness. The cosmic consciousness is lord, sum total of all consciousnesses and also the things related no consciousnesses. This is why, the lord knows about our situation. The lord knows all. As a side note though, the lord can only help us in so much as we help ourselves first. If we beg for help, help could come, but overdrawing our account means a fill up later with good actions becomes necessary. The lord is omnipotent, omniscient and all that. So when i say - i am so and so. That so and so is my consciousness. It's only word and word power, much like i am money but lord is the power of money. So money and its power operates as a duality. Me and my consciousness works as a duality and so i can see myself, i can perceive me. The lord is cosmic consciousness and we all together with the things and the emptiness are the cosmic body. The lord is the one living its life. We form the lord in togetherness.