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But whose attention is it that these meandering centres of neural activity in one's brain command? Who are you? To whom or what is the brain addressing all its processed observations from the outside physical world? To whom or what is the brain passing the pre-stored information needed to support the train of thought which is currently passing before your consciousness? What is that conscious entity which able to take thought and say "I perceive, therefore I exist." Furthermore, where is it located, of what kind of material is it made, and how is it coupled to the physical brain?
My background compels me to try to understand things in terms of things I personally know about. The best analogy I have been able to find for human self-consciousness - that faculty which makes us into sentient beings - is something akin to a self-training neural network computer program recorded on a diskette or tape. The diskette or tape is some form of higher-reality material which is capable of storing information. It is outside or beyond what we perceive as physical reality, although it is still part of the continuum of all reality. The information imprinted on it is what constitutes the real 'you'. This medium, and the information recorded within it is indestructible. It cannot fail, fade or deteriorate.
However, this program can only 'run' or be active while it is receiving input from the physical human brain. Otherwise it is totally inactive. It is simply stored. It is totally event-driven by signals emanating from the physical brain. So you are conscious only while it is active. If you have ever had occasion to stay awake all night, for instance, when you have had a new baby or you have been on military piquet duty, you realise just how long a night really is. Yet the time you spend asleep on a normal night seems to pass in an instant. Your brain is still operating, but 'you' are not there.
It seems that the real you is alive during each day, dies each night, and is resurrected each morning to carry on from where it left off when it died the previous night. It is like a child's TV console game whose state can be saved on the memory cartridge while the console is switched off so that its player can resume at a later time at the stage in the game that existed before the console was switched off. It seems that the real you is something which exists while it has communication with the outside physical universe, but ceases to exist when the communication link is switched off by the physical brain when it gets tired and goes to sleep.
To my best understanding, the message tells us that this adjunct to the physical human life-form, namely the real you, has consciousness only through the physical body. And even then only while the brain is awake and receiving appropriate inputs, via physical senses, from its outside physical environment.
So the real you, it seems, is a consciousness which exists within some kind of hyper medium. From there, it comes to life every morning when the physical brain and body to which it is assigned activates in response to signals from that body's physical environment. Then, in the evening, when the external signals decrease and the brain enters a sleep mode, it ceases or dies. It is then unaware of any passage of time until it is resurrected, the next morning. Nevertheless, its experiences of each day are recorded in its medium and enhance its development as a conscious thinking being.
The consequence of this is that if and when the physical body wears out and dies, or is otherwise destroyed or rendered totally dysfunctional, the hyper-medium recording is still there. The real you is not conscious just as when you slept each night during your life. However, all the information necessary to reactivate the 'real you' through another body is still there perfectly and indestructibly preserved as a static stored recording.