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Pondering the big question of consciousness is a welcome distraction

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Pondering the big question of consciousness is a welcome distraction

Our best mathematical theory of consciousness is sparking a rethink of one of science’s hardest problems – how simple matter gives rise to a complex mind

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Is the universe conscious? It seems impossible until you do the maths

Is the universe conscious? It seems impossible until you do the maths

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The way we think about the brain may be completely wrong

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The way we think about the brain may be completely wrong

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What you experience may not exist. Inside the strange truth of reality

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The science of magic: Why our minds are so easily deceived

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The science of magic: Why our minds are so easily deceived

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Who do you think you are? Why your sense of self is an illusion

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Gelong Thubten & Ash Ranpura

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Who are we? A conversation between Buddhism and neuroscience

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How does consciousness work? A radical theory has mind-blowing answers

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The 4 ingredients to create consciousness could explain our own minds

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The 4 ingredients to create consciousness could explain our own minds

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True nature of consciousness: Solving the biggest mystery of your mind

Far from being a mystical “ghost in the machine”, consciousness evolved as a practical mental tool and we could engineer it in a robot using these simple guidelines

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To understand reality, we first need to find our place in it

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Shocking evidence shows people in vegetative states may be conscious

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How people with extreme imagination are helping explain consciousness

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Andy Clark: Why reality is a hallucination

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