"My work focuses on what makes consciousness such a deeply perplexing phenomenon and a mysterious phenomenon, why it's so difficult for scientists to study it, and because it's such a mysterious phenomenon still within neuroscience, part of my work has also been to connect different disciplines that aren't usually in dialogue. With consciousness studies, if we're interested in asking the question about whether consciousness goes deeper in nature than the sciences have previously assumed, we start to come out of neuroscience"
"So one of the reasons I wrote my book "Conscious" was because I noticed that when I was discussing my work at dinner parties and with friends, I noticed that everyone I spoke to became very interested and had a lot of questions. And that makes sense because we all have an experience of consciousness and not only do we all have an experience of it, it is central to everything we know and care about."
Work on consciousness focuses on why consciousness is deeply perplexing and why it is difficult for scientists to study. Research on consciousness reaches beyond neuroscience into biology, plant sciences, and, at the deepest levels, physics. Bridging disciplines enables them to address the same types of mystery and share relevant perspectives. Public interest in consciousness is strong because everyone has conscious experience and relies on it for knowledge and values. Conscious awareness functions as immediate contact with reality and underlies everything people know, experience, and care about, making its study philosophically and scientifically urgent.
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