Decades Long Bet On Consciousness Ends

I have screamed so many times on this blog about the bullshit of consciousness and I never read any book nor essay on consciousness. 

We know nothing about how the brain works. To make matters worse we don't even know if consciousness actually exists :-) 

So, it’s philosopher 1, neuroscientist 0 but they are still "optimistic" (talk about self deception): 

A 25-year science wager has come to an end. In 1998, neuroscientist Christof Koch bet philosopher David Chalmers that the mechanism by which the brain’s neurons produce consciousness would be discovered by 2023. Both scientists agreed publicly on 23 June, at the annual meeting of the Association for the Scientific Study of Consciousness (ASSC) in New York City, that it is an ongoing quest — and declared Chalmers the winner.

What ultimately helped to settle the bet was a study testing two leading hypotheses about the neural basis of consciousness, whose findings were unveiled at the conference.

“It was always a relatively good bet for me and a bold bet for Christof,” says Chalmers, who is now co-director of the Center for Mind, Brain and Consciousness at New York University. But he also says this isn’t the end of the story, and that an answer will come eventually: “There’s been a lot of progress in the field.”