Findings from modern neuroscience suggest that the brain is a highly social organ; more than enjoying company, it needs interactions to develop, to regulate mood, to solve problems, to responds to threats.

Hmmm, I find the above very interesting. It seems that consciousness feeds off consciousness. Srila Prabhupada said “life comes from life”. But he did not mean biological life only, evidently. Existence requires existence to sustain itself. If we are, we are because we interact with God and each other. The more we go in to the impersonal, the more we go to a sleep-like state. But only temporarily because existence cannot be obliterated completely. The process of becoming more and more conscious, on the other hand, results in becoming conscious of others. Or the other way around: the more we become conscious* of others, the more our self is ascertained. Hmm…

*conscious here means in a giving, serving way.