Consciousness

[Alan V]

It may well be the case that eventually down the line, we will finally figure this out, perhaps by first figuring out the individual steps along the way. The issue is it just doesn't seem this way currently, considering how our conscious experiences seem so qualitatively different from the underlying processes happening in the CNS. And considering how we can't even come up with a potential account of the mechanism that's satisfactory and coherent (and that doesn't go beyond materialism).

I am comfortable thinking of myself as a material body with some interesting emergent properties. Consciousness is more of a problem for reductionists.