The Magic Trick Of Disappearing Consciousness

 Explaining consciousness remains one of the top unanswered challenges in science and philosophy today. How can the warmth of love, the bitterness of disappointment, the redness of an apple, the sweetness of strawberries, be explained in terms of mass, momentum, charge, spin, or any of the attributes of matter? 

How can concrete qualities be explained in terms of abstract quantities and relationships? Nobody has an answer to this, and not for lack of trying. 

Such absolute failure to resolve the so-called ‘hard problem of consciousness‘ has led to a bizarre twist in philosophy of mind over the past three or four decades: the trick of disappearing consciousness...<<<Read More>>>...