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by wowoc 25 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."
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What do you find good about that?
The like-ness properly capture in one go the first-person and the phenomenal aspects of consciousness.