The mystery centres around the origin of consciousness; the prevailing scientific view is that consciousness is a property that emerges from complex brains.
The problem is that we haven’t the foggiest idea of how the stuff of our minds could conceivably come forth from anything physical. Bits of electrified meat don’t easily translate into episodes of consciousness – we have it, we know it, in some sense we are it – but what it is and where it came from escapes us...read more>>>...
