What is consciousness? Some new perspectives from our physics project
Careful. &quot;Consciousness&quot; may just be a language issue. It seems like a profound concept but it&#x27;s really just a word with a very vague and complex definition.<p>If someone tried to formalize &quot;consciousness&quot; it would be a technical book about 1000 pages long or something and all we&#x27;re doing is debating about what goes in the book.<p>It&#x27;s very similar to the question what is &quot;life?&quot; I mean we understand that biology is just carbon based molecular machines, debating what &quot;life&quot; is as a general concept outside of biology is not a profound issue, it&#x27;s just a language issue and you&#x27;d just be debating what the definition of a word &quot;life&quot; should encompass.