I've had that discussion here too. The responses to the idea that our modern concept of consciousness is relatively[1] recent go like this: > So it seems like

I've had that discussion here too. The responses to the idea that our modern concept of consciousness is relatively[1] recent go like this: > So it seems like the argument is that consciousness didn’t exist because we didn’t have a word for it. I wish we as a community could actually have a conversation about this history of the idea of consciousness, but it's been so well-reified over the last 380+ years that it's a tough rock to loosen and is a load-bearing idea in the public's core belief structure - to our collective detriment. 1. post-enlightenment