Consciousness

What is consciousness? What are the processes that lead to it coming about? What structures bring it about? Is it merely an illusion or is it the truth?

I think it'll take scientists hundreds of years of research to eventually understand this. Either that or someone genius - on the level of Einstein - will come along and throw back the curtain to reveal it to us. We seem to be short of geniuses in the 20-21st century though. Well, "the wheelchair guy" exists.

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Ludwig Wittgenstein, John Searle and Noam Chomsky have all revolutionized the way we view this topic and are all geniuses. Do you think your average person understood what Newton was doing in the 1700's? There are very few geniuses’s that make there way into public light, and even fewer that deserve the title; however its foolish to assume a lack of