Where does consciousness come from? And how do our brains create it? A look at one of life’s biggest mysteries
Ideas.Ted
DECEMBER 7, 2021
For me, these questions evoke the uncanny sympathy I felt when watching Dave Bowman destroy HAL’s personality by the simple act of removing its memory banks, one by one, in the film 2001: A Space Odyssey. Copyright © 2021 by Anil Seth. Excerpted with permission from the new book Being You: A New Science of Consciousness by Anil Seth.
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