>>11621341>The fact that conscious experience can be tested for and manipulated consistently shows it must exist.But it does not give it a special nature.
When someone says consciousness they mean not just a phenomena but a specific interpretation of a phenomena.
If consciousness is physical, which is to say a direct physical experience which is the movements of matter around your brain (not caused by, but IS), then the lack of consciousness we might compare a person to - a conscious person and an unconscious person, in fact have PHYSICAL differences between them.
To imagine lack of consciousness then, to contrast to consciousness to make the statement that it is some distinct special thing, can not be done, because you can not imagine a lack of consciousness with out imagining a PHYSICALLY different human.
Because we are thus incapable have a physically identical conscious and unconscious person, because we can not show that being unconscious produces an experience, there is no reason to assume that our experience of being is somehow special and not simply a property of the configuration of physical elements that make it up, as there is no example of this same physical configuration being not conscious
