How Weird Is Consciousness

Antonio Damasio explores consciousness in Self Comes to Mind. - By Alison Gopnik - Slate Magazine: "Consciousness used to be the crazy aunt in psychology's attic. Behaviorists and cognitive scientists alike practiced denial, but the squeaking floorboards troubled our dreams of a truly scientific discipline. Now, the old lady has been given pride of place in the parlor, with all the respectable scientific furnishing of societies and journals. But let's face it—she's still weird."