[amelius]

Interesting. But if the universe is all consciousness, then one can ask what it is conscious about, and why this consciousness is forced to follow the laws of physics.

On the other hand, I find it surprising that science does not deal with "experience of awareness", for clearly it is part of reality (since we are talking about it) and hence of physics (there is only one way out of this, which is to say that we are all zombies just making up that our awareness is influencing reality).

By the way, anyone know of a more concise term for "experience of awareness"? I have been looking for it, and I'm sure it must exist, but no luck so far. How do philosophers address this concept?

[davedx]

You could be looking for "Qualia": http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Qualia

[mrfusion]

Could qualia be the concept you're looking for? (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Qualia)

[tomaskazemekas]

One possible concept could be meta-attention. http://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1080/00221309.1982.971...