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I kind of think that most scientists and philosophers of mind would look on consciousness as still a theory or a hypothesis ~~ not the actual concept itself so much ~~ as what it really is.
Don’t you think that science is still debating/investigating/discovering what it is?
It’s as deep as the ocean with many many kinds of “fish” within it and as vast as deep space.
Let’s not forget that the “science fiction” of yesterday eventually became the real science of today.
Well, for one thing, hasn’t it brought us to distant, distant stars? Hasn’t it taught us about the human psyche, about what makes us tick, what makes us more or less fully human? Hasn’t it warned us of global warming? Hasn’t it shown us what we are doing to the different species’ habitats and endangering these same species? Hasn’t it admonished over and over about the dangers of smoking ~~ and yes, do we listen? There are different branches of science and they are all trying to fulfill their purpose. Rome wasn’t built in a day.
You do not need to look with rose-colored glasses but you can at least put one lens in which is rose-colored while at the same time seeing the one which has no lens as of yet. The coin has two sides to it, within a 24 hour period is the both the light and the dark, there is both hot and cold, there is both the star which has been born and the star which is slowly dying out.
You may just have a point there in a sense. But you can still hold on to your consciousness and dive into it, seek it when and where you can. It may at times hide from us but do you remember when you were a child and played hide and seek? Were you one who was great at finding those others?
There are the Borg but then let’s not forget that there are also those walking the corridors of the Star Ship Enterprise who daily seek out consciousness wherever in the galaxies they may explore. lol
So please go where no “non-conscious” man dares to go. Have no fear.
You could come up with a multitude of ways in which science has worked and has “been there” so to speak.
Why is sleep not an option?
You could also do this ~~