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Re:Consciousness Is Just a Feeling by jrgoj on Thursday March 04, 2021 @11:19AM (#26344315)
> Consciousness, which nobody really ever defines clearly

"An organism has conscious mental states if and only if there is something that it is like to be that organism -— something it is like for the organism." [1]

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/What_Is_It_Like_to_Be_a_Bat%3F

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Re:Consciousness Is Just a Feeling by weeblewobble on Thursday March 04, 2021 @12:21PM (#26345153)
Also see this response/critique by Hofstadter and Dennett (OCRed so a bit mangled, you have to jump around a little bit.

http://themindi.blogspot.com/2007/02/chapter-24-what-is-it-l...

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