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Full Idea
If one wants to settle on some moment of processing in the brain as the moment of consciousness, this has to be arbitrary.
Gist of Idea
It is arbitrary to say which moment of brain processing is conscious
Source
Daniel C. Dennett (Consciousness Explained [1991], 5.3)
Book Ref
Dennett,Daniel C.: 'Consciousness Explained' [Penguin 1993], p.126
A Reaction
Seems eliminativist, as it implies that all that is really going on is 'processing'. But there are two senses of 'arbitrary' - that calling it consciousness is arbitrary (wrong), or thinking that mind doesn't move abruptly into consciousness (right).