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• First, it implies that at any particular time, there is a unity to those things I am experiencing now; that is, some things are in my consciousness while many others are not. Those inside are called the ‘contents of consciousness’ and form the current experiences in the stream or the show on the stage of the theatre. Second, consciousness seems uni...
• A successful science of consciousness must therefore explain the contents of consciousness, the continuity of consciousness, and the self who is conscious, and it must do so starting with a multiply parallel and non-centralized brain.
• The important point here is that most of what goes on in the human brain seems to be outside of consciousness and even inaccessible to consciousness. We see the trees blowing in the wind, but we are not conscious of all the rapid electrical activity in the visual cortex that leads up to that perception.
• In all these cases every one of our brain’s cells, with their billions of connections, are active
• We cannot even remember how pain feels once it is gone.