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#579 Valerie Hardcastle: The Self, Consciousness, Pain, and Abnormal Psychology

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Is There a Causal Relationship Between Conscious Experiences and Behavior?

Is it possible for us at this point to answer questions like if there's any causal relationship between consciousness and subconscious processes that go round in the brain? I mean, do we know if consciousness causes anything? Well, certainly a and i say certainly, because this is what my dissertation was on a thousand years ago. We can very clearly see a relationship between unconscious processing and conscious experiencer or conscious reaction. So yesthat that's very clear, and that you need to have particular sorts of unconscious processing, or off line processing, to get the experiences that you do. What was the second question? Second part of that question. The second part was, if there's, if there was

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