From Greg Nuttgens, Porthcawl, Bridgend, UK
Blackmore describes three approaches to explaining the so-called “hard problem” of consciousness. There is a fourth: that there is no hard problem at all. Though many people still appear to believe that human brains are in some way qualitatively different from those of other animals, I don’t. Isn’t a dog or a crow conscious of itself and its environment? We have big brains, with spare capacity that allows us to ruminate on our existence. That is the only difference.
