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Originally Posted by WT Sharpe
The article seemed about as out there as it gets; but the fact remains that a universally agreed upon working definition of consciousness remains elusive.
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And if we had one would that also be a definition of life? Could there be a living thing that is not conscious, and could the be a conscious thing that is not living? There are fairly non-contentious examples of the former and slightly more contentious examples of the latter.