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Why We Should Rethink What We’ve Been Told About Consciousness
By Graham Hancock — 2013
If we as adults are not free to make sovereign decisions—right or wrong—about our own consciousness, that most intimate, that most sapient, that most personal part of ourselves, then in what useful sense can we be said to be free at all?
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