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We Don't Know What Consciousness is Because We Don't Know What the Tao Is
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We Don't Know What Consciousness is Because We Don't Know What the Tao Is

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Oct 13, 2023
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Your consciousness is what it’s like to be you. It’s your experiences of color and sound and smell; your feelings of pain, joy, excitement or tiredness. It’s what makes you a thinking, sentient being rather than an unfeeling mechanism. Philip Goff, Scientific American

Science is stumped: It can't figure out what consciousness is. It's not even at "first …

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