Everything we know, everything we think, comes from our brain. Are brains our window to reality, seeing what truly exists? Or are we bound by brains, mental slaves of the...
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Everything I know — everything! — comes from my brain. Consciousness, our private sense of inner awareness, is the one big question to which we might find...
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Here’s the big question about consciousness, our inner experience of what things feel like. Is consciousness a product of the physical world alone? Because if...
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