| II | THE PROPERTIES OF CONSCIOUSNESS |
Imagine that you are admiring a sunset from the top of a hill. What kind of properties does such a typical conscious experience involve? Let us begin with the simplest, most atomic sensory components of your experience. Your color vision allows you to enjoy an incredible pallet of different tints and shades: The sky and the clouds near the western horizon burn in purple as the red-orange sun slowly sinks behind the skyline. If you look further up, you can see how the shades of the dusk sky change from purple to violet, to light blue, and eventually to very ...
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