[orwin]

> We need to ban the word "conscious" until people can agree on what it means.

In modern philosophy, it ultimately mean self-awareness, if i read Chalmers correctly. Which is hard to prove (we do have mirror tests that only some animal pass, which prove they do have self-awareness, but failure to understand it doesn't mean the animal isn't self-aware, as young children also sometime fail the mirror test when left alone in front of it).

[dmbche]

I had understood it was nociception as it relates to a physical property

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nociception