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What is consciousness? How do physical processes in the brain give rise to the self-aware mind and to feelings as profoundly varied as love or hate, aesthetic pleasure or spiritual yearning? These questions today are among the most hotly debated issues among scientists and philosophers, and we... read more

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Conscious experience is at once the most familiar thing in the world and the most mysterious.

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  1. David J. Chalmers (Author)

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