Questions about consciousness range from the precise and empirical — what neurons fire when I have some particular experience — […]
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Consciousness is easier to possess than to define. One thing we can do is to look into the brain and
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It is a feature of many human activities – sports, cooking, music, interpersonal relations – that being able to do
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The number of neurons in the human brain is comparable to the number of stars in the Milky Way galaxy.
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Being rational necessarily involves engagement with probability. Given two possible courses of action, it can be rational to prefer the
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The human brain does a pretty amazing job of taking in a huge amount of data from multiple sensory modalities
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