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The Brain Is Not Just an Object, It's a Subject
Mark Watson: 'I have a deep sense of, what can i call it contentedness. That the thing that so disturbed and distressed me as a little kid, and that drove me into the field in the first place' He says we will never understand how the brain works if we don't have that aspect of the brain at the centre of our formulations. The most unique feature of the brain is that it feels like something to be a brain,. This doesn't apply to anything else in nature. And this can't be an accidental, trivial detail aboutHow the brain works. Mark's final thoughts on his career - "If those people that i have mentioned, if that can be our