[thisisbrians]

I can chime in to say: the scientific method, so far, cannot explain consciousness, and that the whole materialistic basis for physics is facing a crisis in the face of quantum mechanics, etc. Most of us have utmost confidence in a method that so far has nothing to say whatsoever about the most important quality of our existence: that we are aware.

[wredcoll]

The "scientific method" doesn't explain anything. It's a method for evaluating claims people make.

The fact that there is no scientifically verifiable theory of consciousness has no bearing on the science that helped people create, say, my computer monitor.

[thisisbrians]

the semantics aren't very important to my argument, which is basically: our instruments can't perceive all of reality, thus we can't test theories around the unknown phenomena therein.

[sunscream89]

Consciousness is the inflection upon the potential of existential being. One might say existential reality peering back upon itself.

Awareness is merely a temporal feedback in the higher order cognitive biotechnology.

Awareness is the tip of consciousness. Consciousness is programmable, can be manipulated, augmented, even inhibited. All with or without awareness.