I’ve long since decided that “consciousness” is a system of epicycles that are necessary to make the Sun rotate around the precocious apes. It’s pre-Copernican.

I’ve long since decided that “consciousness” is a system of epicycles that are necessary to make the Sun rotate around the precocious apes. It’s pre-Copernican. This problem just goes away, everything divides through if we measure performance on tasks. Consciousness is only a mystery in the sense that people studying it are committed to the idea that they’re “different” to dolphins in some deep way. I’ve got nothing against spirituality, if people believe in a soul that’s fine by me, but eloquent speakers on spirituality don’t distract from their message with attempts to quantify it.