On Consciousness

[CCoburn]

I'm sorry, but this conversation has somehow diverted into issues far from my original intent of seeking thoughts on the nature of consciousness. I'm not understanding the issues raised here. Perhaps this is simply the wrong venue.

There's a difference between forming analogies of consciousness and what consciousness actually is. Consciousness is not a program that runs on a TV. That's just an analogy of consciousness.

What do you want? Some scientific explanation as to what consciousness is? It's ethereal and unobservable like some zero-point parameter. It's like electromagnetic energy(bosons), photons and God particles – functioning in some obscure quantum realm.

Quite mysterious and magical apparently, like dreams, which is why no rational mind has cracked its irrational code - its true nature.

Logic and reason will only take you so far, and the rest is chaos. Some things just don't require any reasoning, they just are...immutable.

Neti Neti is a Sanskrit expression which means "not this, not that", or "neither this, nor that" (neti is sandhi from na iti "not so").