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The Illusion of Consciousness
We know that our experience of consciousness is just directing our attention to one piece of our mental activity or another. Could it be that the continuity of this mental activity is more of an illusion than it is a reality? Think of how any single sector of the brain creates a similar sort of illusion, he says. He asks: What if there is no centralized headquarters of the brain where the subjective experience of you is being produced?