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Dr. Michael Levin and Dr. Mark Solms on Consciousness, Cognition and Opponent Processing

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Is There a Difference Between Conscious and Unconscious Cognition?

Emma Watson: Do you think that all cognition has some degree or type of consciousness associated with it? Em, i don't find any sharp line that i can draw where i think, ok, here's where consciousness winks out. How do we distinguish between conscious and nonconscious cognition if we gang to use the word cognition all the way down? And so what i'm really studying is behavior in physiology. I'm not really studying the affect of what it's like to be this, this organism.

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