Human Brain

You may have heard about Anesthesia - it is a modern kind of magic, it turns people into objects and then, people hope back again into people and in this process is one of the greatest remaining mysteries in science and philosophy. How does consciousness happen? Somehow, within each of our brains, the combined activity of many billions of neurons, each one a tiny biological machine, is generating a conscious experience and not just any conscious experience, your conscious experience right here and right now. How does this happen? Answering this question is so important because consciousness for each of us is all there is. Without it there is no world, there is no self, there is nothing at all. When we suffer, we suffer consciously whether it is thought mental illness or pain. If we can experience joy and suffering, what about other animals? Might they be conscious, too? Do they also have a Spence of self? As computers get faster and smarter maybe the