He’s written and cowritten 5 books on the subject, going back nearly 40 years. I think he can as much as anyone can be considered an “authority” on something as

He’s written and cowritten 5 books on the subject, going back nearly 40 years. I think he can as much as anyone can be considered an “authority” on something as inherently hard to observe or develop falsifiable theories as subjective conscious experience. This isn’t an example of physicist stumbling into a new field for the first time and saying “oh that’s an easy problem. you just need to…” The ideas of a very smart person who has spent decades thinking about a problem tend to be very valuable even if you don’t agree with them.