>Consciousness seems to be a word that is poorly defined That's because it's not some foreign thing or theory that we need a good definition of to understand w

>Consciousness seems to be a word that is poorly defined That's because it's not some foreign thing or theory that we need a good definition of to understand what we're talking about. For us humans it's not a loose colloquial notion - it's concrete in a way that even the most well defined things aren't, because it's directly experienced.