Actually, I Think Most People Accept The

Studying Consciousness Tells Us More About How The World Is Fundamentally Strange. I Think We Have A Few Revolutions To Go Yet Before We Get To The Bottom Of It.

Sense Data Are Much More Controversial Than Qualia, Because They Are Associated With A Controversial Theory Of Perception - That One Perceives The World By Perceiving One's Sense-data, Or Something Like That.

I Think That Consciousness Has Always Been The Most Important Topic In The Philosophy Of Mind, And One Of The Most Important Topics In Cognitive Science As A Whole, But It Had Been Surprisingly Neglected In Recent Years.

There's Certainly Nothing Original About The Observation That Conscious Experience Poses A Hard Problem.

Actually, I Think My View Is Compatible With Much Of The Work Going On Now In Neuroscience And Psychology, Where People Are Studying The Relationship Of Consciousness To Neural And Cognitive Processes Without Really Trying To Reduce It To Those Processes.