“Right now you have a movie playing inside your head. It’s an amazing multi-track movie. It has 3D vision and surround sound for what you’re seeing and hearing right now, but that’s just the start of it. Your movie has smell and taste and touch. It has a sense of your body.”
“At the heart of this movie is you experiencing all this directly. This movie is your stream of consciousness, the subject of experience of the mind and the world. Consciousness is one of the fundamental facts of human existence. Each of us is conscious.”
“We all have our own inner movie, you and you and you. Consciousness also is what makes life worth living. If we weren’t conscious, nothing in our lives would have meaning or value.”
“But at the same time, it’s the most mysterious phenomenon in the universe. Why are we conscious?”
