h2g2 The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy: Earth Edition

Have you ever thought we might be here just because we are here. If that is so then we might as well just enjoy what we've got.

Of course I have, and I've posted as much elsewhere. The "reason" we're here is described by a chain of pure causality that stretches back billions of years. That's nowhere near as funny, however, as a brief discourse on the sweaty details that make it so interesting while we're here

Have you come across any definitions of consciousness as trite as my definition of Life

I'm not sure I've seen any such definition yet, I don't think anyone has got that far. Even Pinker seems to skirt around the subject at the moment.

Personally, I find any attempt to describe consciousness as some kind of seperate "stuff", something conferred on us by an external entity (see how I'm struggling to avoid the "G word" - I don't want to get into that) as profoundly defeatist and, in some ways, offensive; a failure. This is just delegation of the unknown.

I think my shrink would agree with you lets leave it be.

May your God go with you