Sam Harris On Defining Consciousness

[bennyboy]

Which is why it's useful not to use one word to mean 20 different things............why, if you want to understand something as broad as "the human experience", for example, you might want to use more than just one word for all that it contains.

Well, that's the problem with reality.  You have composite things, made up of multiple parts and interactions, and it's often arbitrary where that dividing (literally "defining") line goes. I see the merit in your choice, btw: it has the advantage of being usable in the everyday reality in which we interact with things, at least. The problem is that there's something much more interesting happening with the experience of existence than your definition accounts for.