Consciousness is the great filter within which we receive all sensations and perceptions through to create a cohesive reality that makes sense. Reality that functions. Consciousness is the connective sub layer of everything, we can think of it like the space-time continuum a matrix where in which all things are connected. All things must be connected in order to create a cohesive reality.,(reply>), IMO people often confuse reality and "picture" of reality. Consciousness only creates (or is) a subjective image of reality, not reality itself.,(reply>), Can you have consciousness without a brain? I'm not convinced. Can a photon experience anything without the dimension of time or successive frames of reference? It just reeks of mysticism and fails to predict anything. I'm not sure it falls into the label of science at all.