Why Are We Here? What is Consciousness?

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What Is Our Purpose? | What is Consciousness?

An interesting article has been written regarding why we as Humans are here on Earth, what is consciousness, and is there a God or what is the Universe?

.Scientist are now saying that the Universe is capable of consciousness.  The article can be found here
​The following are comments left by readers of the article, which when reading the comments and the article, can be quite an awaking experience:

"The Universe is the Consciousness of God living through us, having a Human Experience. It's too bad not everyone knows Love lies Within. 
The cosmos exists within us, yet we are constantly looking out there for the answer or for a being to give us reason for our existence."

"To be conscious is to be self aware. Self awareness is to recognize the feeling or vibration of yourself in contrast to everything else that you are aware of and feel and be able to single out your own feeling of yourself or awareness separate from all other things that you are aware of that you feel. To feel is to be aware, I feel therefore I am. To be able to single out and separate your awareness from everything else in reality, you must be a singularity. The universe is not a singularity, it is made up of many vibrational forms of energy."

"The universe is aware, but not self aware, therefore it is not conscious, meaning, able to know and experience itself, it's own existence. The universe can relate to the environment and respond by influence, but the universe cannot relate and choose not to respond to influence. The universe does not have will power. Which comes from consciousness. The universe is however, artificial intelligence. A massive energy machine which has it's own code language and programming to which it operates from. A language we do not understand yet. But the universe is not alive and living, conscious. Only operating through awareness , which is one way relation, not self awareness which is two way relation, the force behind consciousness."

"In Truth, the entire universe is part of all of our consciousness, each one of us a dimension overlapping the other, with multiverses acting as one plain, All consciousness coming together in parallel dimensions of the universe to act as one force."