"A unit that is aware of awareness is a conscious unit."

Before I saw Paul Burke's reply, something close to 'tautology' was MY first thought.... but Amos is already....ummm... aware... of my opinions on where consciousness might reside.

My other thoughts on the matter are about the amazing way language/nomenclature can be processed to imply, assert or confoozilate (yeah, I made that one up) ideas about the discussion. I suspect it is possible to go on for 40-50 posts without anyone being really sure what they are against... or maybe even what they are for!

I spent 6 years in Philosophy just trying to understand what the categories OF 'existence' were, and how to construct a dialogue about them.... and after a few years at Mudcat, I wonder if I learned anything useful... :>)

...anyway.. " awareness of awareness", no matter where it resides, is an important concept, as it refers to that aspect of being Human that seems to be unique to humans.. if THAT is not also tautological.

My brain hurts.... g'night