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

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.

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.

Why should physical processing give rise to a rich inner life at all? It seems objectively unreasonable that it should, and yet it does.

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.