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While people like philosopher David Chalmers and author Robert Lawrence Kuhn seem to think that consciousness is a difficult problem, it is clear that consciousness is actually a type of efficient information shorthand:
An organism’s conscious experience, thoughts, feelings, and emotions are a type of information shorthand, a type of summary-level knowledge (basically, of oneself and one’s surroundings), that allows many items of potentially-important information (basically, about oneself and one’s surroundings) to be known all at once.
An organism’s consciousness has very little, if any, raw particle-level information. Instead, the information content of masses of individual particle/ atomic/ molecular-level events, that occurred in the senses, have been repeatedly and intelligently, collated and analysed by the organism.
There is no spreadsheet or table of items of information. Instead, the feelings, emotions and thoughts of an organism are themselves the continually-changing, compact form of information.
And, of course, information is NOT the same as physical reality:
The basic physical matter of the universe is symbolically represented by science in terms of categories, relationships between these categories, and numbers that apply to the categories.
On the other hand, information ABOUT matter is only symbolically representable as what categories, relationships and numbers are time-place TRUE, from the point of view of the matter itself.
So, due to the different forms of representation, one can logically conclude that the physical matter of the universe does not logically equate to knowledge/ information/ consciousness about the physical matter.
