The fact that all of us have an intuitive sense of what consciousness is doesn’t make it any easier to define. The simplest definition is “subjective or felt experience” or, to prune the redundancy, “experience,” plain and simple. “Awareness” is another serviceable one-word definition. P.xxvii A World Appears by Michael Pollan
Socrates said that an unexamined life is not worth living and the bumper sticker says that an unlived life is not worth examining.
Do you live an examined life? What percentage of the population that you know personally would say live examined lives?
What is an examined life? It is being conscious of your consciousness. To what extent are you conscious of your consciousness: never, rarely, sometimes, often, always.
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