Seeing red
by Nicholas Humphrey · first published 2006
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"Consciousness matters. Arguably it matters more than anything. The purpose of this book is to build toward an explanation of just what the matter is." "Nicholas Humphrey begins this exploration of the biggest of big questions with a challenge to the reader, and himself. What's involved in "seeing red"? What is it like for us to see someone else seeing something red?" "Seeing a red screen tells us a fact about something in the world. But it also creates a new fact - a sensation in each of our minds, the feeling of redness. And that's the mystery. Conventional science so far hasn't told us what
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Are you saying you see no evolutionary purpose for consciousness? This is a (very short) interesting book on the topic: http://www.amazon.com/Seeing-Red-Consciousness-Behavior-Init...
on “MIT discovers the location of memories: Individual neurons” ↗As a sidelight on this, I thought I'd also mention the book "Seeing Red: A Study in Consciousness" by Nicholas Humphrey, which advances a similar argument, but with brain output instead of body state as the driver of sensation.
on “Interoception: The inner sense driving your thoughts” ↗Humphrey also has a book called “Seeing Red” that covers similar ground that I found quite compelling, too
on “What is it like to be a crab?” ↗