What Is Consciousness?

I think there's a vast unexplored territory of how different people experience the same thing that we know surprisingly littl about. So what you're calling consciousness isn't really a thing so much as it's the result of processes that we that we experience. When you say that these things like have no colour, well, of course they have color. Redness is something that the brain constructs. There are leaves, there are real things in the world. But color is something that it takes a brain for color to exist. Surfaces reflect light in various ways, and the brain keeps track of how surfaces reflect light,. It creates color as a sort of way for the brain to keep track

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