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Human Consciousness.
This long article looks at how various novelists approach the subject of consciousness, and compares it with scientific methods, also examining how the two approaches interact.
This long article looks at how various novelists approach the subject of consciousness, and compares it with scientific methods, also examining how the two approaches interact.
That mystery is what bedevils the entire scientific community about consciousness–particularly self-consciousness, or the self itself. The slipperiness of the problem explains why many scientists defer it by studying what they call awareness or attention, neither of which they believe to be dependent upon words or other symbols that the inventive brain uses to represent its experiences and itself. But because scientific knowledge is always a third-person account, the question remains: How do you make a third-person account of first-person experience?