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24 Post author: sixes_and_sevens 25 April 2012 12:12PM

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Comment author: faul_sname 25 April 2012 08:20:26PM 6 points [-]

Only one word needs to be added for it to be accurate (if unexciting).

The most astounding fact about the universe is the knowledge that everything we consciously perceive—color, sound, and even energy itself—is a process that involves our consciousness.

Comment author: chaosmosis 26 April 2012 02:03:54AM -1 points [-]

No, it's implicit the way it is.

Perception entails consciousness, unless you have a weird definition of perception.

Comment author: [deleted] 26 April 2012 02:33:41PM 1 point [-]

A definition of perception according to which insects have it doesn't sound too weird to me.

Comment author: chaosmosis 26 April 2012 07:59:34PM -1 points [-]

[Human] perception entails consciousness.

There.

Comment author: [deleted] 27 April 2012 11:36:01AM 1 point [-]

This could be checked giving a pinprick to someone in a coma while scanning their brain. (And I'm being generous and not assuming a definition of consciousness which excludes healthy people in deep dreamless sleep, because if perception entailed consciousness in that sense, alarm clocks would work much less reliably.)