Is There Something Really Different About Consciousness?

Everything else you want to say about life can be defined in terms of extrinsic functional relationships among material parts. I think it's an open question whether the analogy will turn out to be false or notit' It's difficult for us now to put ourselves back into the mind set of somebody 80 years ago, a hundred years ago, when vitalism wic was quite prominent. Ad whether the sense of mystery surrounding something that was alive seemed to be as inexplicable as consciousness seems to us to day.