Consciousness: the problem haunting materialism
6 min readApr 3, 2022
There is a question haunting the sciences: how is it that conscious experience emerges out of physical matter? How do we come to possess this ineffable feeling of what it is to be alive in a body, assailed by information from the senses, our minds crackling with thought, memories, dreams, and perceptions? And why does being conscious feel like anything at all?