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

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

Actually, I think my view is compatible with much of the work going on now in neuroscience and psychology, where people are studying the relationship of consciousness to neural and cognitive processes without really trying to reduce it to those processes.

Things are still in early stages, but one can imagine that as we build up and systematize our theories of these associations, and try to boil them down to their core, the result might point us toward the sort of fundamental principles I advocate.

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.

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

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