This article, like most discussions on "consciousness" I encounter reads like little more than word games to me.
We could similarly write articles about all the qualities and properties of phlogiston, and we'd have learned just as much.
What thing are we actually trying to explain here? What is the extensive meaning of the word "consciousness"? How can I emperically determine if some object/animal/thing possesses consciousness?
At this point it mostly just seems like we define ourselves to have this "conscious" property and then circularly use that as a distinguishing characteristic of humans.
How is "consciousness" not just a modern word for "soul", minus the afterlife stuff?
We could similarly write articles about all the qualities and properties of phlogiston, and we'd have learned just as much.
What thing are we actually trying to explain here? What is the extensive meaning of the word "consciousness"? How can I emperically determine if some object/animal/thing possesses consciousness?
At this point it mostly just seems like we define ourselves to have this "conscious" property and then circularly use that as a distinguishing characteristic of humans.
How is "consciousness" not just a modern word for "soul", minus the afterlife stuff?