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There's something about the world, at least in so far as we're in it as human beings, that is dependent on conscious experience. And since we're all pretty enamoured of our own consciousnesses, although the're painful, because they define our being, it's not unreasonable to give consciousness a kind of metaphysical primacy. There are physicists who believe that in some sense, consciousness plays a constitutive role in transforming the chaotic potential of being into the actuality of being. I don't think we understand it at all. With something we can't get a handle on with our fundamental materialist philosophy. It isn't clear to me we've made any progress whatever in understanding consciousness