>As for what consciousness is, it's pretty simple.

2000+ 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.

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altruios 2 hours ago | parent [-]

> 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?

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Jtarii 2 hours ago | parent [-]

Consciousness 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.

The ability to be aware of consciousness itself as some process that is happening elevates it above a mere emergent property to me.

	▲	altruios an hour ago \| parent [-]
		> The ability to be aware of consciousness itself as some process that is happening. But 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?