Interesting. How creative are our thoughts?

Haven't got to this one yet.

Seems like consciousness and sentience might be the same thing. That's a broad definition of consciousness, as opposed to the 'intentionality' behind perception that 20th Century Existentialists like Merleau-Ponty, posited. Lucid dreaming of course has an element of consciousness involved, but I wonder if all levels of dreaming display such an active involvement. Good food for thought !

Interesting article, and I’m trying to digest it.

“How can physical stuff, eg electrical impulses, explain mental stuff, eg dreams or the sense of self? “

Maybe the answer is that it can’t. There is correlation between mental stuff and physical stuff, but mental stuff, ie thinking is not awareness. It’s hard to understand how the firing of neurons could cause awareness any more than the opening and closing of switches in a CPU can cause a computer to be aware of its existence. In one sense, the computer and the brain/body don’t actually exist from a higher perspective. They are mere assemblages or events.

Maybe it goes like this: universal awareness is primary and pervasive in reality—IS reality. Human bodies are not conscious—they experience consciousness, or rather they experience universal awareness and interpret and react to that awareness by creating personal consciousness—a sensation of existing in a world of time, space and objects.

Personally I think vitalism is a quirk of human cognition and consciousness like phlogiston and the divine spark of life will disappear into the background of quantification. It's a forest and there isn't a magic number of trees that make it suddenly appear.

Wow that was an interesting read. I have a friend who is reading everything available on consciousness. I've shared the link which I will reread soon myself.

You guys will continue to be mystified by this until you learn the limitations of what you consider proof. Does patriotism exist? Show me 100 grams of patriotism. The curve that we are supposedly using for covid-19 reintegration ... does that exist? Cut off a hunk of it as proof. You're stuck on one method of epistemology that doesn't apply to everything.

I got the impression that there were striking, but as yet inexplicable results.
Consciousness is still an inexact mystery . . .