From Mark Wallace
Anil Ananthaswamy writes: “There are those who think that consciousness is something real and those who say it's a mirage… a trick of the mind.” Whether the words “mirage” and “trick” are metaphors, or to be taken literally, they both require a victim. If my brain was this victim, then there's no consciousness involved, and so no trick. There's only a trick if I'm conscious, in which case it's not a trick either.
St Kilda East, Victoria, Australia
