Link to the Show / Show NotesDon your helmets psychonauts! Over the next two weeks, the 'Nature of Consciousness' debate from the Australian Science Festival. Join UK psychologist and writer Susan Blackmore, astrophysicist Paul Davies, and philosopher David Chalmers. Are you conscious now? How do you know? Could it all be a grand illusion? We know it more intimately than any other experience. Yet it remains one of the greatest mysteries of science. From animal minds to artificial intelligence, altered states to the depths of coma - the conundrum of consciousness has everyone stumped.

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