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The Inchoate Science of Consciousness
New approaches could help quantify the mind-body gap
Email: Christof Koch - koch@klab.caltech.edu The Scientist 2005, 19(17):14
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A new scientific field is being born, one that seeks to understand which organisms have subjective states, what purpose theymight serve, and how distinct states of consciousness come about. Here, the Holy Grail is to provide a satisfactory, quantitative account for why select states of complicated, neuronal networks go hand-in-hand with experiences such as seeing blue, feeling pain, smelling a dog that's just come in from the rain, or of simply being.
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