What is "Mind?"

Do you have any solid evidence that people have more trouble coming to an agreement about the descriptions of things that are illusions than they have coming to an agreement about descriptions of things that are not illusions?

MikeL: Everything is real, and consciousness is the essential nature of both God and the soul despite their essential differences. Consciousness is the direct perception of entities just as they are in themselves, as-it-is, experience-as-such, free of thought constructs. Integrate: every "thing" has its place in the economy of the whole.

It’s not that there aren’t “things,” Werner. “Things” are a form of awareness. The objective status of a thing is cognition itself. Phenomena (“things”) have no being of their own. Their essential nature is consciousness itself, and one's experience depends not only on the nature of the object perceived, but also the personal factors entirely peculiar to oneself. In this regard, what is perceived is identical to one's perception. That is, every thing is real according to the manner in which it appears, for as the state of one's consciousness, so the experience.

Insight cannot be gained by going beyond appearances, but by attending to them closely, as-they-are, free of constructs.

This points out the overwhelming issue of how to define consciousness objectively in order to recognize it in more broadly non-human terms.

My sexy, science-y boyfriend described this episode of The Life Scientific with @danieldennett on the evolution of the human brain as “one of the best and most interesting 30 mins I've ever listened to on a podcast... -n9birds

Many people have had deep brain stimulators implanted. This electrical stimulation can produce a variety of sensations. Couldn't those sensations be called "experience?"