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Anil Seth, "Being You: A New Science of Consciousness" (Dutton, 2020)

New Books in Neuroscience

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What Are the Right Questions to Ask?

In the early days of studying consciousness, what were the questions and have they changed? I think the questions have changed a little bit a ad there's one practical example of how some of the questions underlying consciousness have aged. But also, technology, by the virtue of being something, it also limits er our understanding. Just like you describe er withe with a blind man, an an elephant. Yet? We should always just remember that the technologies are tools. They are not answers in themselves. And try and remember to, i think, ii, sorry, i think we should ive try to think putm part of the whole scientific process is thinking about what are the right questions to ask

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