>As for what consciousness is, it's pretty simple.
reply2000+ years of philosophical thought would disagree. I don't believe biological stuff has a magic property that embues some intangible "consciousness" property. It makes more sense to me that consciousness is just a fundamental property of all matter.
> consciousness is just a fundamental property of all matter
... Does that really make more sense than as an emergent property of the arrangement of matter?
replyConsciousness is something you can perceive, so it must have some physical presense in the universe, which must be through some fundamental property of matter, in my opinion.
replyThe ability to be aware of consciousness itself as some process that is happening elevates it above a mere emergent property to me.
> The ability to be aware of consciousness itself as some process that is happening.
replyBut a process is not a physical presence... A wave is made of things, but is not those things, waves emerge: why not then every process?
you’ve misunderstood.
replyeverything is consciousness. not everything has consciousness.
very different