>>10397832>>10397835Also just for the record, I completely agree with you, I don't think there is anything beyond consciousness that can't ultimately be simplified to some large degree of complex neural activity.
Many - mostly religious - people will however claim that there is more to consciousness than what Science can explain. For example, many believe that you may continue to be conscious after death, where no neural activity is present. I obviously disagree with this, however I also find it understandable - the feeling of consciousness is so personal and hard to grasp, it's difficult to accept that it can be reduced to unintended interactions.
It's just that this are of Science is nowhere near advanced enough to be able to factually state that, as long a neural system is complex enough, it will exhibit consciousness.
So we can neither prove that things which seem conscious are conscious, and we also can't prove that things that seem unconscious are truly unconscious.
The only thing we know for sure is that we ourselves are individually conscious.
