I liked the post and the general point, but I think the different consciousness concepts are more unified than you’re giving them credit. Few of them could apply to rocks or automata. They all involve sone idea of awareness or perception. And some of them seemed to be trying to describe the experience of being conscious (vestibular sense, sense behind the eyes) rather than consciousness itself.
I know there are very real differences in some people’s ideas of consciousness and especially what they value about it, but I suspect a lot of the differences you found are more the result of struggling to operationalize what’s important about consciousness than that kind of deep disagreement.
I liked the post and the general point, but I think the different consciousness concepts are more unified than you’re giving them credit. Few of them could apply to rocks or automata. They all involve sone idea of awareness or perception. And some of them seemed to be trying to describe the experience of being conscious (vestibular sense, sense behind the eyes) rather than consciousness itself.
I know there are very real differences in some people’s ideas of consciousness and especially what they value about it, but I suspect a lot of the differences you found are more the result of struggling to operationalize what’s important about consciousness than that kind of deep disagreement.