2026-05-08 at

what is consciousness? recap

Non-technical word. A few branches of use :

1. Medical : responsiveness
2. Social : awareness of responsibility
3. Anthropology : the weak anthropic problem
4. Philosophy of Mind : the problem of "qualia"
5. Natural sciences : a self-referential information process
6. Spirituality : as a catchall for all hypotheses that are not under 5 : some other sort of ontology

Conservative view (mine) :
- "5 is extremely common, almost tautological with pan-consciousness. Therefore 4 is trivial." 
- "4 is what some people make their entire personality/career, and I find it annoying because it's just a variety of 6. Of course, it amuses the masses. So these professionals have a worthy social role."
- "1,2,5 are the practical considerations. 3 is a bridge to ignoring 4 and 6." 

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