EMBARGO Friday 25 November 1900 GMT | Saturday 26 November 0600 AEDT Our glorious little blue marble of a planet is filled with an astonishingly diverse array of lifeforms, but some are definitely more peculiar than others.
Anil Seth explains away consciousness away using fashionable terms like that. As a pediatric neurosurgeon, I know from clinical experience that he is wrong.
Consciousness and the act of being human are very difficult things to understand. It s generally for the best that we don t think about it too much. With ignorance we can simply skip through life believing that we are a rational individual, composed of a single self, making choices according to our own free will, perceiving an objective world outside of us. If we do that, our understanding of the world is generally always correct. And, people that disagree with us are mostly wrong.