The Conscious Mind

The mind is the essence of the individual. Consciousness is an indisputable fact for anyone who can read these words. Yet no one can agree quite what it is, where it comes from, or even how such a thing could be.

Astonishing new tools are giving neuroscientists unprecedented access to the hidden mechanisms of the brain. But is a scientific conception of mind compatible with our ordinary experience of subjectivity? Or do the “neuronal correlates of consciousness” somehow leave out the “I"?