Mark_Friedenbach comments on Confused as to usefulness of 'consciousness' as a concept - Less Wrong

35 Post author: KnaveOfAllTrades 13 July 2014 11:01AM

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Comment author: [deleted] 15 July 2014 03:29:10PM 1 point [-]

I wasn't limiting it to just emotional state. If there is someone experiencing something, that someone is conscious, whether or not they are self-aware enough to describe that feeling of existing.