The Man in My Head Has Lost His Mind (What is Consciousness?)

<p><em><strong>What makes us conscious?</strong></em> In this eminently readable thought-provoking text Carter Blakelaw starts by pinning down the essential features of our personal conscious experience and examines what purpose is served by our being conscious.<br><br>Then reasoning from what he has established must be true about being conscious he goes on to describe a mechanism and process that would experience the world in the same way that we experience the world and which whenever and wherever reproduced would itself be conscious.<br><br><u>Table of Contents</u><br>Introduction<br>1. A Poodle Ate My Homework<br>2. Life Is a Comic Strip<br>3. How Do You Explain Anything?<br>4. As Time Goes By (A Kiss Is Just a Kiss)<br>5. This See Is the Conscious Bit<br>6. Qualia the Possible and a Particle<br>7. Evolution and Free Will<br>8. The Good the Bad and the Choosy<br>9. Finally Making It All Work<br><br>A must-read for the curious-minded <u>so read on</u>...</p>