Comment by wowoc
6 days ago
Thomas Nagel's definition of consciousness is pretty good: "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."
6 days ago
Thomas Nagel's definition of consciousness is pretty good: "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."
What do you find good about that?
The like-ness properly capture in one go the first-person and the phenomenal aspects of consciousness.