Is a consciousness possible apart from the human brain?

Answer

In the first place you can try to define ‘consciousness’ in yourself. And by extension, through the exchange of views, arrive at a ‘human consciousness’. Consciousness of plants, animals, nature, gods, God, can only be defined by analogy with human consciousness. And the property of an analogy is: there is something similar, but also something dissimilar between the two terms of comparison. For example: we say that people ‘speak’. When a dog barks, does it “speak”? He communicates (similar), but it is not a language like humans (dissimilar). Assume an extrahuman consciousness? In religious context: divine consciousness. But it is dangerous to understand this only through human categories. But at the same time we have no others. So be careful not to switch from ‘analogy’ to ‘equal to’.