Religion & Consciousness

The word "consciousness" means different things to different people: "To writers on spiritual or religious topics, it frequently connotes the relationship between the mind and God, or the relationship between the mind and deeper truths that are thought to be more fundamental than the physical world."* As such, all that religion has to say about consciousness has already been said. But Crick and Dennett's consciousness, human or otherwise, is a phenomenon of the real or physical world, an emergent property of the brain which has only recently (in the last decade or so) been the subject of serious scientific investigation.

*Quote from Wikipedia.