What Do You Believe About Consciousness?

There are many more immediate reasons to engage in the scientific study of consciousness. Even if we don't solve the alternate problem of how consciousness is part of the universe at all, we already know that the experiences that people have are shaped in very clear ways by what's going on in their brains and their bodies. And if we understand these factors, these mechanisms, these influences that give us the experience of the world around us and of who we are within it, I mean there's so much at stake"