Conscious/ness
Consciousness
Overview
- Consciousness is subjective experience: there is something it is like to perceive, feel, think, or be aware.
Questions
- Research asks how conscious experience relates to brain activity, which organisms or systems experience it, and how it can be studied from both first-person reports and observable evidence.
- Philosophical accounts disagree about whether experience can be fully explained by physical processes and about what evidence would resolve that question.
- Michael Pollan surveys scientific and philosophical approaches to consciousness alongside literary, spiritual, and psychedelic perspectives.