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Stephen Downes

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This article looks at consciousness from the perspective of "Rethinking Consciousness: A Scientific Theory of Subjective Experience." Neuroscientist and psychologist Michael Graziano writes that "consciousness is simply a mental illusion, a simplified interface that humans evolved as a survival strategy in order to model the processes of the brain." I think that the very idea of saying that consciousness is an illusion suggests that there is something else which it actually is, an account that I find difficult to sustain. My own view is that consciousness is real, that it is experience, and nothing more or less.

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