Sure We’re Learning More About Brain Mechanics (But What Is Conciousness?)

“Focus on your current state of consciousness – your experience of seeing, hearing, feeling, thinking, willing, and so on – and ask yourself what kind of being this consciousness is, what its function might be, how it is related to the activity of cells in your brain, what could have brought it about in the course of evolution. Allow yourself to feel the attendant puzzlement, the sense of bafflement: now you are doing philosophy of mind.”