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

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.

Because the idea of zombies seems to make sense, and seems to, in a certain sense, be possible, I think one can use that to argue against the thesis that everything is purely physical. Now many people, I think, agree that the idea of zombies are conceivable, including people who want to be physicalists.

Within psychology and neuroscience, some new and rigorous experimental paradigms for studying consciousness have helped it begin to overcome the stigma that has been attached to the topic for most of this century.

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

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

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