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Not really; but we can make it into a definition problem.

If we go there then consciousness is suddenly just our subjective experience of change/time/increasing entropy.

If you want a definition that's helpful you're going to have to be more specific than that of course.

Saying consciousness is "just our subjective experience" of anything isn't a definition, it's tautology. The question is whether a reductionist definition of consciousness exists, or whether it's fundamentally irreducible.

Whether that's a tautology or not really depends on your definition of consciousness which is sort of my point: that consciousness, as the broad and poorly defined concept it currently is, is not all that useful.

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