From Len Mann, Gerrards Cross, Buckinghamshire, UK
Consciousness is a feeling I have; I am alive, I am conscious. I have a strong sense of self that seems to go beyond my physical being and beyond time. This can only be an illusion, bestowed by evolution, to give me, and all humans, a survival advantage.
It may be impossible to find out where our consciousness lies in the brain. Would trying to create consciousness in an artificial intelligence be a better approach? In simulating consciousness, we might learn more about how our own mind is made to have this illusion. We might also produce a “real” artificial being.
