> By thought I meant "process happening the brain". It is not metaphorical, it's a very concrete physical process. > The perception of own thoughts is not some

> By thought I meant "process happening the brain". It is not metaphorical, it's a very concrete physical process. > The perception of own thoughts is not something difficult for a computer. Just check the activity monitor or run the ps command. It's not hard for a computer to reference itself, sure, but it perceiving its own thoughts is something else. > Btw: what is a feeling? A particular kind of thought? A emotion maybe? It seems to me that it's a thought which origin is mysterious, unknown, unconscious, ie not conscious. I probably should've said emotions. Emotions are more low-level than thoughts. I think that infants can be conscious without thinking at all, so I don't think that thinking is necessary at all for consciousness, yet it probably does color our understanding of what consciousness is.