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Why are we conscious?
The Why Factor
How Does the Bat Experience the World?
For hundreds of years, philosophers have wondered how the physical stuff from which we're made give rise to subjective experience. The seventeenth century french philosopher descartes was a duellist. He thought the mental and the physical were fundamentally different. But if so, how do they interact? How aa pin prick cause pain? A few prominent philosophers are now promoting panpsychism - consciousness exists not just in minds but in atoms and molecules.
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