General Introduction: The Riddle of Consciousness
WHAT IS CONSCIOUSNESS?
In a very profound sense, it is consciousness that makes the difference between life and death or existence and nonexistence. What does your whole life consist of but an extended progression of lived conscious experiences? Your stream of awareness started to flow sometime between the womb and the cradle, perhaps with more or less chaotic sensations filling your subjective world. Since then, that world has evolved a lot—now you are surrounded by a relatively coherent perceptual world consisting of colorful, well-formed objects, animals, and people; sounds located in this three-dimensional ...
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