Excellent article. If I were a neuroscientist, I would enjoy it even more.

Please don't get Deepak Chopra started

There is an excellent audiobook titled Homo Deus. One part explains that we have two conciousnesses. One is the current awareness and the other is a long term awareness. For example dealing with pain. The long term averages the pain at the beginning with the pain at the end of say a colonoscopy. That's why doctors , when finished, leave the tube inserted for several minutes when there is little pain. The long term conciousness averages the beginning and the end so overall, the pain rememberance is low. How clever.

There is an excellent audiobook titled Homo Deus. One part explains that we have two conciousnesses. One is the current awareness and the other is a long term awareness. For example dealing with pain. The long term averages the pain at the beginning with the pain at the end of say a colonoscopy. That's why doctors , when finished, leave the tube inserted for several minutes when there is little pain. The long term conciousness averages the beginning and the end so overall, the pain rememberance is low. How clever.

If l ever run out of weed l will get back to you on that one. ?

Thanks very much for posting this article. I share your annoyance with how Dennett was dismissed. I think Dennett has a lot to offer the field.

The absence of "Unconscious*

Long but interesting article. Read through the first half and skimmed through the second. I understand consciousness as being all there actually is and all effort to try to locate it somewhere within all that actually is, is similar to a dog chasing after its own tail. We are what we're chasing to know.

I'd say consciousness is awareness. Ha ha!

I don't think it's a question that can be answered.

Consciousness is the evolutionary result of backward rationalising human brain trying to deal with determinalism.