Conscious: A Brief Guide to the Fundamental Mystery of the Mind

by Annaka Harris

Even though we are talking about modifying a conscious experience, consciousness itself isn’t necessarily controlling the system; all we know is that consciousness is experiencing the system. It is no contradiction to say that consciousness is essential to ethical concerns, yet irrelevant when it comes to will.

“panpsychism is simply a hypothesis about the ultimate intrinsic nature of this energy, the hypothesis that the intrinsic nature of energy is experience. . . . Physics is untouched by this hypothesis. Everything true in physics remains true.”10