What If the Brain Doesn’t Create Consciousness?

The Generator vs. Receiver Debate, and the Birth of a Different Model

Let’s start with the most annoying, unsolved riddle in modern science: how does your brain produce consciousness? How does a pinkish-gray, three-pound slab of biological goop give rise to thoughts, dreams, emotions, memories, awareness, and that inner sense of you reading this sentence right now?

This is what philosopher David Chalmers famously called th…