From the roughly thirty conversations I remember having, below are the answers I remember getting.
Ugh. This list is exceptionally painful to read. Every one of your definitions suggests consciousness something “out there” in the universe that can be measured and analyzed.
Consciousness isn’t any of these things! Consciousness is the thing that you are experiencing right now in this very moment as you read this comment. It is the visceral subjective feeling of being connected to the world around you.
I don’t want to go all Buddhist, but if someone asks “what is consciousness”, the correct response is to un-ask the question. Stop trying to explain and just FEEL.
Close your eyes. Take a breath. Listen to the hum of background noise. Open your eyes. Look around you. Notice the tremendous variety of shapes and colors and textures. What can you smell? What do you feel? What are your feet and hands touching? Consciousness isn’t any of these things. But if you pay attention to them, you might begin to grasp at the thing that it really is.
Ugh. This list is exceptionally painful to read. Every one of your definitions suggests consciousness something “out there” in the universe that can be measured and analyzed.
Consciousness isn’t any of these things! Consciousness is the thing that you are experiencing right now in this very moment as you read this comment. It is the visceral subjective feeling of being connected to the world around you.
I don’t want to go all Buddhist, but if someone asks “what is consciousness”, the correct response is to un-ask the question. Stop trying to explain and just FEEL.
Close your eyes. Take a breath. Listen to the hum of background noise. Open your eyes. Look around you. Notice the tremendous variety of shapes and colors and textures. What can you smell? What do you feel? What are your feet and hands touching? Consciousness isn’t any of these things. But if you pay attention to them, you might begin to grasp at the thing that it really is.