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Edit: oh okay just downvote because of an observation. Nice community here!

Personally I take the view that my consciousness depends on the state of the environment so that consciousness changes as emotional inputs change/process for example. So that the state of ones consciousness is effected/changed/emerges from the environment it is in; not the environment emerging from the state that consciousness is in.

'For example, self-consciousness is "the concept that consciousness has of itself. Thus in this case concept and referent coincide:... 'self-consciousness' refers to mind's taking on the self-contradictory (and thus also self-negating) role of being subject and object of one and the same act of cognition – simultaneously and in the same respect."'

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Georg_Wilhelm_Friedrich_Hegel#...

It wasn't that long ago homosexuality was illegal and considered a medical condition.

There are plenty of other examples for why this is a bad excuse to not secure communication.