Consciousness

There is no independent, separate consciousness.
Consciousness arises out of conditions.
Without conditions, there is no consciousness.
Eye and visual forms = visual consciousness.
Ear and sounds = auditory consciousness.
Nose and odors = olfactory consciousness.
Tongue and tastes = gustatory consciousness.
Body and tangible objects = tactile consciousness.
Mind and ideas/thoughts = mental consciousness.

There is no Thinker behind the Thought.
Thought itself is the Thinker.
If you remove the Thought,
there is no Thinker.

Consciousness depends on matter, sensation, perception, and mental formation (samskara) and can not exist independently of them.

"I" "self" and "ego" are just names.

-Waipola Rahula, "What the Buddha Taught"