3 Consciousness Smiles

No one wants to touch the ‘hard question of consciousness’. Well, that’s not really fair, because EVERYONE just KNOWS what it is: consciousness is ‘the mind’, consciousness is ‘the will’, consciousness is ‘the soul’. Consciousness is COMPLEXITY, consciousness just POPS out of all those lovely brain networks and oscillations and reverberations and suchlike. But there are TWO little problems with all that: one, that ‘just knowing’ tells you NOTHING about how things really work; and the only GOOD theory of ‘consciousness itself’, what it IS and how it WORKS, is THIS one. Which you haven’t come across yet. So read these, yes there are a LOT of them, in order; you keep reading, and I’ll keep writing, and between us we’ll wrestle this sucker to the ground …