I’m all for intellectual revolutions. There is nothing more exciting than a discovery that turns the accepted worldview on its head. And in what follows, we will discuss upheavals that some consciousness researchers envision to be heading our way. But for reasons that will become clear, I suspect that consciousness is less mysterious than it feels. Resonating with my late-night TV exclamation and, more importantly, with a segment of researchers who’ve devoted their professional lives to these questions, I anticipate that we will one day explain consciousness with nothing more than a
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