Conscious effort

I GAVE up my job to write a textbook on consciousness. This may sound daft, but my main desire in life is to struggle with what some say is the greatest mystery left to science: why do we experience anything at all? How can millions of objectively existing neurons produce the subjective experience of being me sitting here worrying about it? It’s terribly difficult even to think about. And the best way to learn about a difficult subject must be to write the textbook. I reckoned it would take two years even without a job, so I set to work.…