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Radiolab
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The Importance of Consciousness
When a newborn's brain is developing, these different wiring that lead information into different parts of the brain are still taking shape. Inside a meal's brain, right now, at two months, all of his senses are in a big, synesthetic knot so that when he hears my voice, maybe he sees flashes of color. Or maybe when he looks at the wall, he hears tones. Maybe when light comes in through the window, he tastes it, like salt or something. We can't know. I mean, there is really strong philosophical grounds for being skeptical there.
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