>You are conflating consciousness[1] with self-awareness[2]. They are two distinct ideas. Consciousness is not an idea and ones who experienced a little bit of

>You are conflating consciousness[1] with self-awareness[2]. They are two distinct ideas. Consciousness is not an idea and ones who experienced a little bit of it (via meditation or some chemicals or other ways) will laugh at all attempts philosophers and scientists are doing to define it. Simply because you can only define something which you can observe from aside, but here there is no outside, everything is inside it. How can you possibly define that? :D