shminux comments on Confused as to usefulness of 'consciousness' as a concept - LessWrong
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Congratulations, you expanded the term to include everything and thus make it completely useless.
The term is not useless because it applies to everything. That would be like saying the term "air" is less useful because we don't define all the gases and where it is specifically where everything is specifically. The point is that consciousness is like a connection a type of connect-mind that ties all things together. It is something that because it is within all things allows us to connect with objects both large and small. Its a system of beingness.