From Paul Dolphin, Melbourne, Australia
Consciousness is, and always has been, a territory littered with shape-shifting concepts. Your article (23 June, p 28) illustrates this. Consciousness is acknowledged to be an “emergent” property of more fundamental processes: so the discussion is like trying to define the shape of smoke – a major problem is where to attack.
As David Rivett said in his speech launching Australia's Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organization: “the problem is not primarily to find the right answer, but to find the right question.”
