Studying consciousness tells us more about how the world is fundamentally strange. I think we have a few revolutions to go yet before we get to the bottom of it.

Now I have to say I'm a complete atheist, I have no religious views myself and no spiritual views, except very watered down humanistic spiritual views, and consciousness is just a fact of life, it's a natural fact of life.

What does it mean, exactly, for a given system to be a "neural correlate of consciousness"?

People have managed to avert their eyes and hope for the best.

How does the water of the brain turn into the wine of consciousness?

Studying consciousness tells us more about how the world is fundamentally strange. I think we have a few revolutions to go yet before we get to the bottom of it.

My interests started about in science and in mathematics, I always thought I was going to be a mathematician.