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Daily Archives: February 25, 2007

Seeing Red – Understanding Consciousness

Posted on February 25, 2007 by Dwight

An article by John Searle (“Minding the Brain”) in the Nov 2, 2006 edition of The New York Review of Books shows how confused most of us (including philosophers & scientists) are about something as everyday as vision. Searle reviewed … Continue reading →

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