If I didn't know, from my own case, that I'm conscious, my knowledge of your neural processes would give me no reason to suspect that you are.
Some advocates of science insist that questions science cannot answer are meaningless, but I find this unconvincing--and unattractively narrow-minded.
The observational record tells us unambiguously that the universe is getting more interesting as time goes on.
The pursuit of science has led me to conclude that the future is open and novelty is real.
To be human is to live suspended between danger and opportunity.
