Thanks for your thoughts. Again I'm glad to see cool philosophy problems discussed on steemit and getting some attention!

The idea that consciousness is information sounds to me to be the "functionalist" approach to consciousness. Dennett and the Churchlands, for example, would agree that in many meanings of the term "consciousness" it's basically a kind of information-processing. But when it comes to the "what-it's-like" sense of consciousness - the qualia - there seem to be convincing arguments that consciousness in that sense could not be pure information-processing. Dennett agrees and says consciousness in that sense does not exist - mental states are just information processing. So are you a Dennettian eliminativist after all? Or do you mean something else by "consciousness"? Or do you have some response to those arguments?

I also think it's worth being careful of contradictory solutions if you're literally searching for truth instead of something that sounds metaphorically suggestive but doesn't actually mean anything. It sounds deep and suggestive to say "I am nothing" and "I am everything", but both seem literally false upon a moment of reflection. Descartes has given pretty good reason to convince yourself you exist (so you're not nothing - nothing can't write steemit posts), and you clearly aren't strawberry ice cream or the Tower of Pisa, so you're not everything either. If you're just trying to evoke a kind of wonder or emotional response without actually trying to figure out what's true, then this can be poetically effective, but it is a very different goal from trying to figure out what consciousness is.