What Is Consciousness?

[nailit]

A sort of carry over from my "question for naomi" thread.
Have been reading the tale end of that debate (with a lot of interest) between naomi and others regarding energy and whether it can survive death. It seems to me that at times there might be some conflict as to what we mean by 'energy'. If we replace the word energy with consciousness then the debate makes a bit more sense....to me anyhow. The question then becomes can consciousness survive (in whatever shape or form). It then begs the question,
what exactly is consciousness?
From everything ive read, it appears to be one of the big questions, as science , as yet, has no idea exactly what consciousness is or how it arises.
Just curious, how do we define consciousness and what is it?
Thanks

[mibn2cweus]

To paraphrase Bilbo, "We know more than half as much as we realise and less than half of what we know half as well as we should like to think we do."

[Zacs-Master]

That^^^ could be the AB strap line!

[naomi24]

Haaa! Sounds about right. ;o)

[jim360]

Pity that wasn't the 111th post.