Mind/matter duality

[bennyboy]

There are a lot of good posts to answer, but let me just say this-- it's weird that we're trying to "fit in" consciousness into various models, or waiting for new data to come back before we can say what consciousness is. This is a reversal of the role of observation. The reality is that you wake up and open your eyes, and that's consciousness. All the rest is stuff that you've made up based on the experiences you've had-- and that even includes models of the universe in which consciousness is nothing more than an accidental byproduct of brain chemistry.