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BI 128 Hakwan Lau: In Consciousness We Trust

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The Confound Between Consciousness and Performance Capacity

If you're not careful your theory of consciousness miyht end up just being a theory of how the brain works. And i suspect that most current theories are actually just how the brain work, because that confound is not being taken care of. It's like saying that i try to compare tall people worh a short people and less control for the length of their bones. Like that. You can't control for the very thing itself. I think it's an empirical counter example to the conceptual identity between consciousness and performance capacity.

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