I think we’re close to answers about why and how consciousness exists, but what these qualitative experiences are seems unanswerable.

I can see myself walking away from this book just bewildered. 
Like fusion always being 20 years away, it seems the optimistic researchers think it's kind of maybe possible to know... _soon_.

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Do you think we'll ever have a satisfying explanation for what consciousness is?

I suspect not and there aren't many things I feel that way about.

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Consciousness and Wellbeing -- Michael Pollan

Do you think we'll ever have a satisfying explanation for what consciousness is?

I suspect not and there aren't many things I feel that way about.