[c22]

I know what consciousness "is." I'm experiencing it right now.

[dekhn]

Ah. I use the term "the subjective experience of consciousness". IE, what you are experiencing could really just be a VR drug hallucination, completely unrelated to anything else, or an epiphenomenon of a completely mechanistic universe.

[JohnFen]

I would argue that if you can't communicate it to another, then you don't know what it is. You only know what it's like to experience it.

[c22]

I guess it depends on what your definition of is is!

To put it another way, either you also have consciousness, in which case I have explained it, or else I can't explain it to you because you don't.

[Bridgoo]

Prove it

[c22]

No, it's entirely self-evident. You prove I don't.