Yet trying to imagine being something with half as much consciousness or twice as much consciousness as myself, seems impossible
To me, it doesn’t even need to be imagined. Everyone experienced partial consciousness, e.g.
Dreaming, where you have phenomenal awareness , but not of an external world.
Deliberate visualisation, which is less phenomenally vivid than perception in most people.
Drowsiness, states between sleep.and waking.
Autopilot and flow states , where the sense of a self deciding actions isn absent.
More rarely there are forms of heightened consciousness: peak experiences, meditations jñanas, psychedelic enhanced perceptions , etc.
To me, it doesn’t even need to be imagined. Everyone experienced partial consciousness, e.g.
Dreaming, where you have phenomenal awareness , but not of an external world.
Deliberate visualisation, which is less phenomenally vivid than perception in most people.
Drowsiness, states between sleep.and waking.
Autopilot and flow states , where the sense of a self deciding actions isn absent.
More rarely there are forms of heightened consciousness: peak experiences, meditations jñanas, psychedelic enhanced perceptions , etc.