All of which has nothing to do with the questions PP raises in his references. It is jolly fine to say "I don't need to think about consciousness -- I am too busy BEING conscious and doing stuff".

You can leave all understanding up to higher powers, too, and content yourself with being an operating piece on the board.

But striving to see more into the somewhat mysterious fact of consciousness is legitimate and possibly very rewarding, assuming one does not just grind into analysis paralysis or get bemused into various mystic or authoritarian webs.

I doubt any of the grumblers here would like to offer a model of how consciousness happens to occur. And what its relationship to living forms actually is.

I suggest that while there is no obligation on anyone to have any curiousity, being uncivil about the curiousity of others is a sort of crime.

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