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The Problem of Consciousness
neuroscience of consciousness started like finding correlations between things happening in our experience and things happening in the brain. We all know intuitively that correlations are not the same thing as explanations or causations. To make that link, to go from it just does to, oh, it makes sense that it does, we need theories. And there are a number of theories on offer. The one I prefer is the idea that the brain is a kind of prediction machine which gives a language for connecting these different levels.