Loved this one. “Life is the universe developing a memory.” An inspiring thought.,(reply>)," @Trip4man Divine Chemist....Origin of Life ---<br>Genesis 1:1 - In the beginning Elohim created the heavens and the earth;<br>aliens...are demons / fallen angels...manifested into a physical form ----",(reply>), Surprise! its not his line,(reply>), @Thilo Bauer Ego Battle, credentialism and self indulgence &gt; adding value and actually communicating for mutual benefit.,(reply>), @Raph Ael Thank you very much. Now I see why I passed my Master's thesis in the Philosophy of Mind only with distinction and not summa cum laude... Dammit, couldn't I have heard about your fabulous redefining before! So, I let you have the final say, insult me one more time before we let leave it at that.,(reply>), @Thilo Bauer Consciousness, at its simplest, is sentience or awareness of internal and external existence. Despite millennia of analyses, definitions, explanations and debates by philosophers and scientists, consciousness remains puzzling and controversial, being "at once the most familiar and [also the] most mysterious aspect of our lives". Perhaps the only widely agreed notion about the topic is the intuition that consciousness exists. Opinions differ about what exactly needs to be studied and explained as consciousness. Sometimes, it is synonymous with the mind, and at other times, an aspect of mind. In the past, it was one's "inner life", the world of introspection, of private thought, imagination and volition. Today, it often includes any kind of cognition, experience, feeling or perception. It may be awareness, awareness of awareness, or self-awareness either continuously changing or not.