Was Max Planck right about consciousness? | Patricia Churchland, Brian Greene, Amanda Gefter and Laura Mersini-Houghton
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Is Consciousness Fundamental?
consciousness is just the mystery of mysteries, and i'm not temperamentally, i'm just not in that domain. Do i think it's fundamental? Not in the sense that plank tougt it is fundamental, but quite likely it is,. because we wee experiences in the first person every day, each one of us. So there is something there, certainly. I can't answer the question, why does it need to be there? Why do i need to have an experience? Why did i need to be conscious? Probably studies of deep sleep and anysthesia can can help with those. But at the first step of courcey, they are a good proachest at the
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