Even patients in a coma can have conscious experiences despite lacking control over their bodies, indicating that consciousness may not solely depend on physical embodiment.

Consciousness can only be known from the inside; we cannot get true evidence of a conscious experience from the outside, which is different from any other scientific study.

A brain lesion can lead to significant behavioral deficits that may recover over time due to brain plasticity, but deeper brain lesions can result in permanent deficits without intervention.

I don't find the argument that AI cannot be conscious due to its lack of biological components compelling, as consciousness may not be limited to biological systems; if you can simulate a human brain with high fidelity, it's likely that there would be some kind of conscious experience present.

The idea of a single self is challenged by split-brain studies, which show that different conscious experiences can arise within the same body, leading to the conclusion that consciousness may not be a singular entity.

The most unsettling idea about consciousness is how non-conscious matter in the universe can configure to create an experience of being from the inside, and the mystery of how that transition occurs keeps me up at night.

Imagine if consciousness is just a program connected to an experience indistinguishable from a real biological one.

Many intuitions about consciousness are shattered by current neuroscience research, revealing that our conscious experiences are often constructed from subconscious processes.

The brain creates conscious experiences that help us navigate the world, but these experiences do not necessarily reflect the underlying reality, as described by the term 'controlled hallucinations.'