FOLLOW this link to the first of a series of articles I’ve written about FEEL, a new project being run by experimental psychologist Kevin O’Regan in Paris, to explore the possibility that consciousness is not locked inside our brains, but emerges when we interact with the world. The implications are exciting and sometimes disturbing – for example, that babies are born without consciousness and acquire it gradually, in piecemeal fashion, as they move and receive sensory feedback, and gradually learn more sophisticated ways of manipulating the world.