What if consciousness isn't generated by the brain at all, but is a way of describing how organisms interact with the world? Kevin O'Regan presents a radical sensorimotor theory that dissolves the hard problem of consciousness using the same conceptual trick that demystified life itself.

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O'Regan argues that searching for neural correlates of consciousness leads to an infinite regress: even if we found the exact neurons responsible for the feel of redness, we could always ask what makes those neurons produce red rather than green. His solution borrows from the history of biology, where vitalism was abandoned once scientists recognized that life is not a substance but a description of how organisms interact with their environment. Similarly, he proposes that feel is  ...