From Wolf Kirchmeir, Blind River, Ontario, Canada
It seems to me that consciousness isn’t a state or quality, but something the brain does. Two observations that I think support this conclusion: one, we manipulate conscious experience by ingesting certain substances.
Two, anaesthetics reduce conscious experience to about as close to zero as is likely possible. The above implies that the proper question isn’t “What is consciousness?” It’s “How does the brain do conscious experience?” I suspect the awkward grammar of that question has a lot to do with why it’s rarely asked.
