Wrong ideas can often hold academic credibility. Not saying this particular idea is right or wrong, just that academic credibility may not mean much when it com

Wrong ideas can often hold academic credibility. Not saying this particular idea is right or wrong, just that academic credibility may not mean much when it comes to matters of mind of which we may never really know much about. A rock could very well be conscious, or not. Let us say that (by someone's definition) it is, what then? Someone else is not going to agree that it is. Is there an objective definition? Can it be experimentally verified? Uncertainty is the only certainty.