You can just be experiencing something that is not consciousness... That's what consciousness is: to borrow Thomas Nagel's phrase (which Chalmers also uses fre

You can just be experiencing something that is not consciousness... That's what consciousness is: to borrow Thomas Nagel's phrase (which Chalmers also uses frequently), "the thing that it feels like" to be something. By every reasonable definition I've ever heard — and I've studied and read about this stuff for decades — that's pretty much a constant: consciousness is the experiential part of ... you know, experience. Yes, it's entirely possible — even common — to be mistaken or misled about the content of your experience, but not the fact that you are experiencing. In a discussion already absurdly full of sophistry, your comment should win a very large, gaudy prize.