NY Times: "Consciousness Isn't A Mystery. It's Matter."

(Originally Published in the NY Times on 5/16/16)

Excerpt:

"Stephen Hawking makes [the case] dramatically in his book “A Brief History of Time.” Physics, he says, is “just a set of rules and equations.” The question is what “breathes fire into the equations and makes a universe for them to describe?” What is the fundamental stuff of physical reality, the stuff that is structured in the way physics reveals? The answer, again, is that we don’t know — except insofar as this stuff takes the form of conscious experience."

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