Up till now [the development of proto-consciousness], we can suppose, nervous systems solved the 'Now what do I do?' problem by a relatively simple balancing act between a strictly limited repertoire of actions - if not the famous four F's (fight, flee, feed, or mate), then a modest elaboration of them.

Philosophers' Syndrome: mistaking a failure of the imagination for an insight into necessity.

We're all zombies.* *It would be an act of desperate intellectual dishonesty to quote this assertion out of context!

A neurosurgeon once told me about operating on the brain of a young man with epilepsy. As is customary in this kind of operation, the patient was wide awake, u…