It’s a fine, bold title, but I don’t think that many feel that Consciousness Explained actually explains consciousness. What I got from it wasn’t the feeling that there was no work left to do, but that the back of the problem had been broken—that it had been moved from something so hard to think about that it made your brain spin into something that we could apply ordinary reductionistic methods to without getting mired.
It’s a fine, bold title, but I don’t think that many feel that Consciousness Explained actually explains consciousness. What I got from it wasn’t the feeling that there was no work left to do, but that the back of the problem had been broken—that it had been moved from something so hard to think about that it made your brain spin into something that we could apply ordinary reductionistic methods to without getting mired.