trying to snare the concept of consciousness in a definition that brings it inside the rational and empirical is a favorite pastime of the overweening and is in every case completely analogous to the drunk looking for his keys under the lamppost because the light's better there
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the sense data coming in through my skin and eyes and so on isn't just cascading around some neuron chains until it spits out muscle actuation, there's also something *experiencing* it
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