The only thing you can truly be sure of is the reality of your own subjective experiences at this very moment. Everything else is questionable.
The explanatory power of science has exploded, and with it humanity’s capacity to manipulate reality. The emergence of science is a story of how the human mind gained intimate knowledge of the workings of the universe and how this expertise gave us one of the greatest gifts: the fruits of technology.
We are minds incarnated in flesh, able to discover and create science, enabling us to manipulate and engineer reality at will. How can that which is closest to us be so elusive? Why don’t we understand the nature of consciousness?