ABSTRACT
The question, “What is consciousness?” has been asked, but not answered, since the first dawnings of speculative thought. The present age, however, can boast of a new question all its own: “Does consciousness exist?” To one whose common-sense life has been spent outside the intellectual fantasies of academic shades this question might seem ludicrous. Nevertheless, professors of the older school are beginning to experience a considerable degree of bepuzzlement when confronted with the task of convincing a healthfully sceptical younger generation that there is such a thing as consciousness.
