consciousness is a philosophical term, something that belongs to the world of ideas, and our brain is designed to generate ideas regardless of reality. What i f

consciousness is a philosophical term, something that belongs to the world of ideas, and our brain is designed to generate ideas regardless of reality. What i find misguided is the various attempts to find a physically measurable quantity of "consciousness", which is like saying we ll find a measurable quantity of "justice". Consciousness has been attributed to the soul, to gods, to some hypothetical physical property, to quantum fluctuations, to nanotubules etc. Unless one has a good definition of consciousness, it can be all of these things or none of them. Until then, it's just a word