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Consciousness.

How is it possible that the thread is up 5 hours and ctrl-f consciousness returns nothing?

>>spodek+(OP)
Because no one knows what it is or even agrees on a definition. Consciousness is a pre-scientific concept at this point.

There are attempts to rigorously define it. I'm currently reading this paper, but not really convinced: https://journals.plos.org/ploscompbiol/article?id=10.1371/jo...

>>spodek+(OP)
Here are things that I consider to be defining properties of human consciousness:

a) The ability to observe an instance of a multidimensional universe, each instance a mapping of a point moving along a continuous trajectory whose direction is constrained by the arrow of time (i.e., increasing entropy)

b) the ability to impart a force to change the direction that trajectory follows

>>spodek+(OP)
Consciousness has no properties, it can't be studied scientifically.