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The Philosophical Mystery of Consciousness: Why Physical Brain States Produce Subjective Experience

If you asked philosophers what the most mysterious thing about the mind is, most of them would say: consciousness. It’s just a really weird thing. An exhaustive physical description of a brain state…

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Mason Westfall2mo ago9 min readenInsight

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