By Meghan O’Gieblyn — 2019
The strange, startling, and competing explanations for human—and possibly nonhuman—consciousness.
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In the world’s largest study on psychedelics and the brain, a team of researchers from The Neuro (Montreal Neurological Institute-Hospital) and Department of Biomedical Engineering of McGill University, the Broad Institute at Harvard/MIT, SUNY Downstate Health Sciences University, and Mila—Quebec...
The brain creates the images, thoughts, feelings and other experiences of which we are aware, but awareness itself is already present.
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It’s a surprising answer that looks far from obvious, but space joins a long list of candidates as old as the written word.
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