> Consciousness is a suitcase word, which makes it challenging to debate. It is worse: it carries with it connotations of discarded science, such as levels of

> Consciousness is a suitcase word, which makes it challenging to debate. It is worse: it carries with it connotations of discarded science, such as levels of consciousness (aka. "animals have a lower level, Buddhist monks a higher one"), and the mind-body separation — it is fairly clear by now that whatever could be called a mind is a part of our body. There was a time where the majority belief was that emotions and diseases came from four types of humors running through our veins. Slowly, the consensus switched away towards miasma theory and then germ theory. Words like humor, miasma, aether, have now fallen into disuse. We are at that awkward period before another old word bites the dust. I find that usually, people that are puzzled by consciousness only want to understand the relativity of points of view: "why am I me and not someone else? Why don't I wake up in a different body?" To which the answer is obviously that memories are located in your brain alone.