Out of Our Heads: Why You Are Not Your Brain and Other Lessons from the Biology of Consciousness

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Why do we place consciousness within the confines of the brain? This idea-that ΓÇ£you are your brainΓÇ¥ is a notion that has long dominated the study of consciousness, and is based on faulty philosophical principles and bad science. Consciousness isnΓÇÖt something that happens in the brain the way digestion happens in the stomach; it is something we do or make, more like dancing than it is digestive processes.



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