Equivalents are used in Nyaya logic..
Consciousness is seen equally in all beings .

Life comes from life.
It will never arise out of chemicals.
The source of miniature Consciousness is larger consciousness.
Like the sun and sun molecules.
There has never been a time that consciousness did not exist , nor in the future will it cease to be ..matter has certain defined and changing properties.
Consciousness is a different sort of energy , a superior energy.

We can not equate something inferior to something superior
The ancients and their cultures were correctly based on dualism.
Scientific materialism is a recent construct ..and is a completely subjective speculation and is actually unscientific. it curiously practically ignores consciousness .Ignorance is bliss , so some say ,  maybe this  enables a madman to live in the illusion of enjoying dead matter .
We are the same Consciousness particle, as we were as children, but our body has changed .
When we  sleep and dream , our  body is acting , and our consciouseness is  involved in the  ethereal plane , a real life , so much so that if a man embraces a woman, he can  ejeculate . Curiously, though, we completely forget our  body lying in our beds in dreamland,  but we hear , speak , feel, and act .
On awakening, we  remember and identify with our day time body again ..at death your body is forgotten forever , but you wake up in a new one , only traces and some impressions of a previous consciousnesss conditioning is vaguely remembered .
Thus, your life is a daytime dream night-time dream .
But you should ask why am I subjected to this ?

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