2. The Emergence of the Concept of Consciousness

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2.1 Naive Realism I am immersed in a colourful moving noisy tasty smelly painful spatially and temporally extended stream of things. During a nuclear explosion I see a grey mushroom cloud, hear a detonation, feel heat, touch wind and taste synthetic strawberry bubblegum in my mouth. I do not infer the presence of these things—they are just there before me as the world at this place and time seen from my perspective. When Cro-Magnon man peered out of his cave he saw a bright pattern of green l...

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