The Mystery of Consciousness

consciousness is just what it's like to be you. Right now you're having an auditory experience of my voice speaking to you, a visual experience of the room around you. If you pay attention, you can notice the tactile sensations of the chair beneath your body. So that's all we mean. Really it's not something sophisticated or strange. It's just an inner life, what it'slike to be you at any given moment. You know what pain is when you feel it. That's all we're talking about. The mystery rather is, is not what consciousness is. But where the hell it comes from? How does the brain manage to produce it if it does? And if