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Martin Monti, “The Limits of Consciousness” (Open Agenda, 2021)

New Books in Neuroscience

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Using the Vegetative State as a Probable Hypothesis

The ultimate goal is to have a scientific definition of what consciousness is. The best definition comes from an italian scientist, juliatono e shat who says that consciousness is tha thing that goes away when you go into dreamless sleep, and n comes back when you wake up in the morning. Cane: Can we assign numbers to brain processes and somehow find this thermometer that i've been talking about? This this way of quantifying what's happening? One way of doing it is to imagine your brain as a network of notes that talk to each other. So i's it's a network. No, not too different from what the internet might be, or what facebook might

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