Oliver Leech's Cafe Phil. is essentially laid out in his website http://www.consciousnessmatters.com/

The talk was very much on the "colour purple,taste of honey, sound of silence, feel the beat,ouch" can never be explained by science, even thou/if there is a one-to-one
correlation with potentially observable brain states. 

The BIG C is neitherthe result of or cause of or identical, or part of these states, C. shines in from elsewhere through the stained glass window of the brain; we
experience the play of light inside the church - occassioanlism it seems this is - a logically intriguing notion.The audience raised issues, rather
confusedly, such as that cutting-edge quantum physics is no longer deterministic, that C. reduces the metabolic cost of info. processing by
bringing to mind what matters from an info. overload received by the organism.
 
Don't observe the third letter of the cast iron manhole cover, don't worry about all that changing visual data at the periphery -JUMP OUT
OF THE WAY!, that C., like life, is a previously unpredicatle good idea that was an absolure winner once invented "acidentally" in the course of
evolution. We just had to have it!


Nick Scarthin
October 3rd 2006