Consciousness might not be something the brain creates — it might be a fundamental feature of reality itself, more like gravity than like a thought — and one of the most credentialed neuroscientists alive is now arguing that mainstream science has been wrong about it for a century

The mainstream scientific framing of consciousness has been, for most of the last century, calibrated to a particular structural assumption. The assumption is that consciousness is something the brain produces, that the production occurs through the various electrochemical activities of neurons and their networks, and that the underlying problem of explaining how subjective experience arises […]