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The Importance of Consciousness Research
Why is being ourselves and having a sense of self related to a discussion of consciousness? How do those two things get related? We know what it's like to have this phenomenological experience of being a self. But I think for many of us, there is a sense of mystery about what the self is. And so when we take the self to be an aspect of this flow of conscious experience that requires explanation itself, then I think we're making progress.