Are we close to solving the puzzle of consciousness

By Stephen Downes - Stephen's Web. Are we close to solving the puzzle of consciousness
David Robson, BBC News, 2019/04/01
Giulio Tononi's proposal here is that "any conscious experience needs to be structured, for instance – if you look at the space around you, you can distinguish the position of objects relative to each other. It’s also specific and 'differentiated' – each experience will be different depending on the particular circumstances, meaning there are a huge number of possible experiences. And it is integrated... shape and colour and location... are all held together at once in a single conscious experience." But why is consciousness one set of experiences and not another. More...