You wake up to a stream of consciousness, which is your perception of the world and its content, with you at the subjective center of the experience. Throughout the day this stream is the reason for everything you do. You get water because you’re thirsty, take turns while driving because you have a destination in mind, talk because you’re feeling... See more

there is an essential meaning of the word “consciousness,” one that contemporary neuroscientists, biologists, psychologists, or philosophers can recognize, even though they approach the phenomenon with varied methods and explain it in different ways. For all of them, more often than not, “consciousness” is a synonym of mental experience. And what

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