Is There a Consciousness?

For a long time, everybody thought that consciousness was something extra to the physical realm it interacted with. Descarte thought that until well into the nineteenth century. Now many people are convinced that there isn't anything except the physical realm. And now they don't know what to say about consciousness. We say this is a general, a general phenomenon. It's not built into consciousnes that be not physical. It is. But our diagnosis is lat there's no fact of the matter here and that the truth is that the notion of consciousness in a certain way indeterminate in its meaning. The debate between similaries and elusionists about consciousness has gone on for centuries. There seems