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Explaining the magic of consciousness with one word

Dennett argues that the ‘hard problem‘ is a red herring – the whole question of how conscious first person experience arises from the biological function of the brain assumes that consciousness is a single thing that needs explaining. He suggests that there isn’t a single thing that is consciousness, just a collection of mental components, [...]
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