The scientific method is part of an empirical philosophy and requires the ability to make objective measurements. The problem with consciousness is that we hav

The scientific method is part of an empirical philosophy and requires the ability to make objective measurements. The problem with consciousness is that we have no ability to measure it objectively because it is an entirely subjective phenomenon. You have no way of knowing if I am conscious or just a sufficiently elaborate machine doing a really great job of acting like I am (a p-zombie). Personally, I lean towards panpsychism. I assume I am not special and that everything in the universe, or to put it another way the entire universe itself, has an experience of being.