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Hi there. I once read a post by you[1] that I vibed with. It reminded me of an interesting forum post that you might like, and I wanted to share[2]. [1] https:

• carapace 8y ago
  Ohai! I recall your username from somewhere as well. Cheers! That discussion was interesting, it even included the observation, quite correct, that [the concept of] consciousness is useless. > If the concept is so vague as to be completely devoid of utility, then it is hard to understand how discourse about it amounts to anything more than a form of poetic or mystical expression. That's the unnerving thing about it: it's useless yet the most significant "thing" in the world... I have deliberately adopted the habit of mentioning the possibility of merging consciousness when the subject comes up, because it's one way of breaking the stalemate around the Hard Problem. You can't make a consciousness-o-meter but you can know the consciousness of some "other" person. Whether that counts as empirical is beyond me. :-)