How many versions of your fursuit have you gone through so far?

just 2, the one i made and my OFA one

How different do you act when you wear your suit, compared to not wearing your suit?

Very, I once made a joke comic about it. http://www.furaffinity.net/view/8983487/

That's a joking over reaction, but honestly I'm not nearly as outgoing as when I'm in my suit or online. In suit i'm really outgoing, I make a point of trying to interact with those that want to interact and meet everyone. Online is similar, I go out of my way to try to be outgoing to some extent (though not as much as suiting).

Usually I'm more reserved in my normal life than how I am online or in suit. I don't hate people, and I'll be friendly and civil if anyone ever wants to chat, but I'm not really the type that tries to message people daily, or wants constant attention or activity.

Is consciousness just a product of life? Or is it a part of something larger? (In your opinion)

Personally I'm a functionalist. This carries a lot of assumptions with it if you know metaphysics and what not. I don't think there's things in the world not tied to the physical, but rather emergent properties.

I think people have a tendency to give a supernatural explanation for something not understood. In Phil Mind that thing is consciousness, so there's all these theories about what are brain states and what consciousness is, and there's actually a lot of support behind the idea that consciousness is something more, a nonphysical thing that is the mind. There's some compelling arguments for it and it's too much to go into here, but I'm more compelled by the idea that consciousness is just the product of how organic brains are organized.

There's no physical "consciousness" part of the brain. Descartes used to think the pineal gland had that function and now that we are learning more about the brain and what it does there are more that think consciousness has a non-physical element. Personally I think it does, but only as a product of the physical. In the same way that gravity is an emerging property of mass, or water/wetness an emerging property of hydrogen and oxygen.

In the case of gravity, there are no gravity particles (unless QM got weirder since I last checked) but it is a force that comes about through the interaction of other particles. If there was only one particle in the universe, would gravity exist?

Same with hydrogen oxygen example. Both are gases and just looking at them separately you would not guess it would form a liquid when combined. However it makes H2O, water. I think that's how brains work. We're not going to find a "consciousness" part of the brain in the same way we find the Broca's area (language) or whatever. Rather, through the interaction of these different parts we have something we deem as consciousness.