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Christof Koch: The Integrated Information Theory of Consciousness

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Physics of the Brain

i always ask, what is it about the physics of the brain that makes the brain so radicall different from the liver? My liver, as far as i can tell, is not conscious. Yet. If i look at the physicet the biphysics of the liver, it's highly complex. It has no lineal feedback. It has very complex representation. There's a mermain potential there. So why it's my liver not conscious? Or maybe thereisn't, it's not telling me. I think everybody who thinks my conscience, whatever, if evy have other theories of the neural basis of conscience, would still probably agree with many of those ateoms.

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