"Consciousness" is a pretty useless word without being very carefully defined, because people use it to mean a variety of different things. And often in the mos

"Consciousness" is a pretty useless word without being very carefully defined, because people use it to mean a variety of different things. And often in the most ambiguous way possible such as this comment. But also often some related but very specific and different things such as the reply that assumes it means only "self-awareness". To me, the main purpose of the word is to prove the insufficiency of language and how imprecise most people's thinking is.