1. The Mystery of Consciousness

Comment #18888 by mitchl on January 23, 2007 at 12:59 pm

Anyone seriously interested in this subject should read some science on it and not just philosophy, even relatively enlighted one such as Pinker's. A neuroscientist named Antonio Damasio has written three very accessible books, *The Feeling of What Happens,* *Descarte's Error,* and *Looking for Spinoza.* Try any of these, but it probably makes sense to read the first one mentioned before the others. They're great books. And of course there is the work by Francis Crick mentioned in one of the responses above.