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Sean Carroll: Is Consciousness Emergent?

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What Is the Subject of Consciousness?

' consciousness is internal and not observable externally,' he says. 'It's a feature of consciousness that when you're in a conscious state, er, you're somehow, in some sense, immediately aware of that state' But if we were just trying to explain my bepain behaviour from the outside, or cognitive functioning mechanisms would do it - so why bother? He adds: 'We've got another data point, a factor into our basian calculations'

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