by Christof Koch
VISION	The Inchoate Science of Consciousness New approaches could help quantify the mind-body gap Email: Christof Koch - koch@klab.caltech.edu The Scientist 2005, 19(17):14 Published   12 September 2005

A new scientific field is being born, one that seeks to understand which organisms have subjective states, what purpose theymight serve, and how distinct states of consciousness come about. Here, the Holy Grail is to provide a satisfactory, quantitative account for why select states of complicated, neuronal networks go hand-in-hand with experiences such as seeing blue, feeling pain, smelling a dog that's just come in from the rain, or of simply being.

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