What is Consciousness?
[Respondent]: I should like to tell you, that the moment you are speaking about consciousness (…). [Richard]: (…) When I am speaking about consciousness I am referring to the condition of a flesh and blood body being conscious (the suffix -ness forms a noun meaning a state or condition) as in being alive, not dead, awake, not asleep, and sensible, not insensible (comatose) …. (August 31 2003).
