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╨╧рб▒с > ■ f h ■ e ье┴ 5@ Ё┐ 0 ─И bjbj╧2╧2 (Ш нX нX ~ н И Ъ Ъ Ъ Ъ Ъ Ъ Ъ 8 < H , = v А А А А А А А А ╝ ╛ ╛ ╛ ╛ ╛ ╛ $ │ R ┬ т Ъ А А А А А т Ъ Ъ А А ў К К К А Ъ А Ъ А ╝ К А ╝ К К Ь Ъ Ъ Ь А t Р0f*сР╟ А Ь ╝ 0 = Ь ╟ А ╟ Ь о 4 т " Ъ Ъ Ъ Ъ ╟ Ъ Ь А А К А А А А А т т К The Anatomy of Consciousness During the final decades of the twentieth century, the study of consciousness evolved to the level of a new interdisciplinary field within the scientific community. Human consciousness seems to have moved to the forefront of scientific research and scholarly debate, notwithstanding the large and intransigent problems which still plague the subject. Yet, the interdisciplinary nature of the subject also defines the greatest obstacle to a successful theory of consciousness. In particular, when a psychologist talks about conscious, subconscious or unconscious states of the mind, he, in all likelihood, is not addressing the same idea of "consciousness" that a physicist invokes to account for the "collapse" of the wave function in quantum theory. This distinction is all the more important because physicists are probing what seems to be a fundamental quantity within physical reality, rather than just a temporary state of mind, when they speak of consciousness....
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