Consciousness

What is consciousness? What are the processes that lead to it coming about? What structures bring it about? Is it merely an illusion or is it the truth?

I think it'll take scientists hundreds of years of research to eventually understand this. Either that or someone genius - on the level of Einstein - will come along and throw back the curtain to reveal it to us. We seem to be short of geniuses in the 20-21st century though. Well, "the wheelchair guy" exists.

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It isn't nitpicking, it is making an important point. A number of people in this thread seem to be making the case that determinism implies that a person will react in a very similar way to two very similar situations. That is not correct; determinism says that a person will react the exact same way to two situations which are the exact same. However, the latter is an empty statement, as for the exact same situation to occur twice they would have to occur at the same time, and thus would not be distinct from each other.