moridinamael comments on The Fabric of Real Things - Less Wrong

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Comment author: moridinamael 12 October 2012 07:01:53PM 1 point [-]

Impossible, no; meaningless, yes.

Consciousness in reality causes us to emit sentences about an awareness of subjective experience, so there is a coupling between neurons and the conscious algorithm being run by those neurons.

If consciousness were merely a passive awareness with no causal influence upon anything else in reality, it would not be causally entangled with the universe. This is as close to "meaningless" as I can imagine.