> If you break a light bulb do you destroy light itself? You certainly destroy the process of light creation in that bulb, which is the proper analogy with the

> If you break a light bulb do you destroy light itself? You certainly destroy the process of light creation in that bulb, which is the proper analogy with the consciousness of a single mind. No one is claiming that messing with a single brain affects consciousness itself, only the consciousness of that brain.