For an organism to be conscious, it has to have some kind of phenomenology for itself. Any kind of experience — any…
For an organism to be conscious, it has to have some kind of phenomenology for itself. Anykind of experience — any phenomenological property — counts as much as any other. Wherever there is experience, there is phenomenology; and wherever there is phenomenology, there is consciousness. A creature that comes into being only for a moment will be conscious just as long as there is something it is like to be it, even if all that’s happening is a fleeting feeling of pain or pleasure.
Anil Seth, Being You: A New Science of Consciousness. London: Faber & Faber, 2021.