cheers mate, you arent the only computer - philosophy nerd out there.

Very nice presentation of this topic. I somewhat agree with it, but I'm not a fan of the abstraction of consciousness as an ethereal solution to the problem of perception. I see consciousness as a result of a lot of simpler chemical and physical events which lead to complex behavior, and different perceptions are caused by different events in one's lifetime (a matter of time and place). On the one hand it's a much bleaker view of our experience of the universe, but on the other hand it allows for a more physical description of what we experience without resorting to intangible abstractions.