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Is the Central Brain What Creates the Signals of Consciousness?
In discussions of consciousness, people often focus on visual experiences. Maybe starting with things like thirst, like hunger, and like pain. Give us a nicer road into thinking about some of the stuff related to consciousness. I think what we can start to see when we think about these kinds of processes is pain as demanding in some sense that you stop doing what you're doing. It's something that shifts the way that things will taste so that your sensitivity to the taste of sodium is upregulated.