The Importance of Consciousness

I think the way forward is to say that conscious experiences exist, because there are some philosophers that claim we're mistaken about that too. The self in this view is not what does the perceiving the self is itself a kind of perception, a collection of perceptions. And then you put on that thread some more and you can start and you can, it becomes familiar theory towards a theory of consciousness when we ask the most fundamental question about why is the brain doing any of this at all? We've given one answer, which is, it's the only way of making sense of ambiguous data from the world. But I actually think there's a deeper reason for having a brain for any organism -