The Importance of Consciousness

Ivan Orlov: I've seen a lot of discussions with scientists on the evolutionary side where they can almost come to grips with the idea of intelligent design. And is it really the word personal that throws them for a loop? Is there a difference? Well, there you get into some very deep questions in the philosophy of mind. For me, any notion of mind which is fundamentally reduced to just an epiphenomenon of matter is actually an incoherent view.