Although I'm Australian, I find myself much more in sympathy with the Austrian version!

There's certainly nothing original about the observation that conscious experience poses a hard problem.

Although I'm Australian, I find myself much more in sympathy with the Austrian version!

Even when I was studying mathematics, physics, and computer science, it always seemed that the problem of consciousness was about the most interesting problem out there for science to come to grips with.

I think that consciousness has always been the most important topic in the philosophy of mind, and one of the most important topics in cognitive science as a whole, but it had been surprisingly neglected in recent years.

I had the idea that it would be wonderful to be a physicist or a mathematician maybe 500 years ago around the time of Newton when there were really fundamental things just lying around to be discovered.

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