For many years my inherited arthritis had given me problems.
A philosopher might find the general work unsophisticated, and scientists are often bemused by esoteric talk of zombies, supervenience, and possible worlds.
Now I have to say I'm a complete atheist, I have no religious views myself and no spiritual views, except very watered down humanistic spiritual views, and consciousness is just a fact of life, it's a natural fact of life.
Consciousness poses the most baffling problems in the science of the mind. There is nothing that we know more intimately than conscious experience, but there is nothing that is harder to explain.
How does the water of the brain turn into the wine of consciousness?
People have managed to avert their eyes and hope for the best.
What does it mean, exactly, for a given system to be a "neural correlate of consciousness"?
I really am a cat transformed into a woman.
Hatred is active, and envy passive dislike; there is but one step from envy to hate.
If someone says tennis is not feminine, I say screw it.
It was a little skirmish across a century.