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Consciousness Reduced

or The Physical Reality behind the Metaphysical Rot "A rabbit poofs out of a magician's sleeve, not out of a magic hat." -- a Brain well-informed sans a consciousness magical * * * But solely quantum force bits pushing quantum matter bits arranging countless neural combinations in the brain each consciousness produce until the brain yet calls it quits and dies still often slowly in a pattern known as pain -- the "I" of consciousness a quantum sequence and a trick, a mere illusion, such as changing water into wine, full gagged and bound before a kind of photoplay or flick, observing on the screen an actor speaking every line -- though not in Spanish if the "I" no Latin lover knows, the bits not able to effect the needed neural shapes, and if the bits know not whose name compared is to a rose, they need to straight exchange their neural network for an ape's -- while if the "I" a sparkling verse of skill and wit can pen, perhaps each humbled rhymester should commend it now and then. * * * a dedication of Respect for the neural Pain of mastering the physics of neurobiology -- as well as the neural process painless of poeticizing the proficiency a revolving helios sonnet menippean satire on the physics of consciousness yet commonly romanticized april, 2023 -- each consciousness confounded still the enemy of Clarity