The Simplest Theory of Consciousness

Bertrand Russell: We have no idea what matter is, all we know is what it does. The alternative to panpsychism is just to postulate that the matter outside of brains has some completely unknown nature," he says. "It seems to me when you look at the whole range of evidence, it's a different picture" 'You never have certainty that's science, but we can have theories that look better than others,' adds Hawking.