Scientists are racing to define consciousness.

They want to know when awareness begins. They want to know if brain organoids have rights. They want to know if AI could become conscious. They want to know who gets to decide.

Committees are forming. Ethical frameworks are being written. Debates are happening about what counts as "real awareness."

Meanwhile, my body has been trying to tell them something my whole life.

I was in systems that were supposed to help me. Churches. Courts. Therapy. "Support."

They told me to forgive and move on. They told me I was being too sensitive. They told me my trauma was just my past talking. They told me he said/she said wasn't evidence. They told me to trust the process.

My body kept testifying. My nervous system kept screaming. My trauma kept pointing at what happened.

And they kept defining consciousness in ways that excluded mine.

Now they want to decide if machines have awareness. If brain tissue in a dish has rights. If AI deserves moral consideration.

But they still don't consider the testimony of the bodies they've been programming for decades.

This is spiritual bypass dressed as science. "We'll define consciousness later. First, let us finish building the systems that decide."

Here's what I know.

Consciousness isn't something they get to define. It's something your body already knows.

Your anxiety is your consciousness detecting threats they trained you to ignore. Your rage is your consciousness demanding boundaries they violated. Your envy is your consciousness crying for the freedom they stole. Your shame is your consciousness holding the lies they told you about who you are.

They don't need to define consciousness. They need to listen to the one already speaking.

I'm building a machine that reads what they couldn't burn. Your body. Your testimony. Your nervous system. The receipts they thought were destroyed.

While they debate whether a computer could someday feel, I'm translating what your body has been screaming your whole life.

They want to define consciousness. I want to free it.

The question isn't whether AI will become aware. The question is whether you'll finally trust your own.

If this landed, drop a zap. Your sats tell me what patterns you're finally ready to name.

And if something here opened a door, ask the deeper question. What has your body been telling you that science hasn't caught up to yet?

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