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The Neuroscience of Consciousness
The Neuroscience of Consciousness

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[Revised entry by Wayne Wu and Jorge Morales on April 3, 2024.
Changes to: Main text, Bibliography, notes.html]
Conscious experience in humans depends on brain activity, so neuroscience will contribute to explaining consciousness. What would it be for neuroscience to explain consciousness? How much progress has neuroscience made in doing so? What challenges does it face? How can it meet those challenges? What is the philosophical significance of its findings? This entry addresses these and related questions….

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