Consciousness

[flofrog]

I agree tadeus, about the very good summary,

And in fact I liked a lot, as a different perspective your quote :

Consciousness (lat. conscientia, συναίσθησις, synaisthesis, "co-perception" and φρόνησις skrt. चित् Chit) is based, according to Rudolf Steiner, "not on the fact that a being shows a certain counter-effect to an effect, but that the being experiences something in its inner being which is added to the mere counter-effect as a new thing." (Lit.:GA 13, p. 59f)

@ Dtris, your quote

Physics and philosophy are in the ironic position of consciousness being necessary for existence, yet unable to define consciousness adequately.

made me smile, because in a way the discovery of the 'observer of the particle' changing the particle shows somehow that consciousness is shared, lol