> Our brain knows it is conscious. Alas, there's the rub. With sufficiently high-resolution brain scans, it should be possible to backtrace what happens when s

> Our brain knows it is conscious. Alas, there's the rub. With sufficiently high-resolution brain scans, it should be possible to backtrace what happens when someone utters, for example, the phrase "I'm conscious", or does some meditative exercise, or something. But I'm really not sure if we could learn anything more from that than we know now. Personally I think the most logical position is panpsychism with respect to information and/or information processing. Disregarding some undiscovered physical phenomenon, this is all that happens in the brain, and I see no fundamental reason why other systems that represent or process information couldn't be conscious, as well. Which leaves us with the problem of how to define "information" in this context, of course.