A Case Study in Explaining Consciousness The problem of consciousness has been with me just about as long as I can remember. At some point, my best guess is in 1990, mum asked me if I thought the mind was just the activity of the brain or if it was something more. My answer was wrong. Hopefully I am less wrong now. I shied away from the question for a long time, determined to study cosmology instead. But, I’m glad I returned to questions about the nature of the mind and consciousness as...