Peter Hankins.
The Shadow of Consciousness: a little less wrong.
self published. 2015
In the latter part of the twentieth century,
leading scientists and philosophers embarked on a remarkable venture
into one of the last areas of darkness on the intellectual map:
the problem of consciousness.
The quest turned out to be more difficult than the gallant venturers had hoped. In different ways and different places they ran into inexplicable barriers in the darkness, or found themselves bogged down in what seemed to be invisible swamps. The dragon remained unslain.
Peter Hankins, author of the popular Conscious Entities blpg, has written this book to shed light on what went wrong, and suggest better ways forward.