Missing links in the consciousness debate | Letters

Reading Oliver Burkeman (The I in mind, 21 January) I was surprised to discover that many scientists deny there’s such a thing as consciousness. They should read Mary Midgley’s Are You an Illusion?, I thought. I liked Philip Goff’s response (Letters, 29 January), but now I wonder, why do academics interested in consciousness seemingly ignore David Bohm, of whom Einstein spoke as his intellectual successor? Bohm was a 20th-century American physicist who lived and worked in England. The Dala