The importance of Origin of Consciousness is not its author's throwaway theory. It is, rather, that the questions he raised and failed to answer to anybody's sa

The importance of Origin of Consciousness is not its author's throwaway theory. It is, rather, that the questions he raised and failed to answer to anybody's satisfaction, including his own, still have no answer, decades later. Incidentally, a scholar of ancient Greek I consulted read it and said he was dead wrong about the evolution of emotive terminology.