Zach Weinersmith on Nostr: So I'm reading a book I find frustrating because it's trying to argue consciousness ...

So I'm reading a book I find frustrating because it's trying to argue consciousness isn't in the brain because a lot of stuff your brain does is automatic and in a kind of dance with environmental queues. That seems to me like a sleight of hand, where you define consciousness to be something like "all human behavior" and note that it doesn't exist inside the head.

Personally, I'm in favor of defining consciousness pretty narrowly, and as lying on a spectrum.