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Is there a neural correlate of consciousness?  

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Is there a neural correlate of consciousness? The following essay provides an argument addressing a neural correlate of consciousness by presenting Crick and Koch's (1990) theory of visual experience and Block's (1995) concepts of consciousness. Although consciousness is the most familiar and intimate thing to us, at the same time is the biggest mystery which many attempted to solve but for now it has proven somewhat unsuccessful. As Charmers (1995) puts it: "Consciousness poses the most baffling problems in the science of mind. There is nothing that we know more intimately than conscious experience, but there is nothing that is harder to explain." (in Blackmore, 2003, p 7). How does it feel to write this essay at this moment in time? Do my colleagues who chose the same topic feel the same while writing? No one can have exactly the same feeling of writing as I have. Do I know that the...

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