Consciousness may be more than the brain's output — it may be an input, too

Consciousness may be more than the brain's output — it may be an input, too

From a scientific perspective, studying consciousness is a bit like trying to describe the singularity inside a black hole from the window of a spacecraft in its gravitational orbit. We can see how the black hole warps and contorts the space around it: Superheated dust and gas spiral inward; radiation and strange gravitational waves emanate outward.  But from this outside view, observing the singularity inside the black hole is impossible. The e…