Consciousness The Fire in the Equations
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[Excerpt from Chapter 1, Consciousness: The Fire in the Equations, by Dr. Stuart Penrose]
The nature of consciousness remains deeply mysterious. How can the subjective nature of experience - my inner life - be explained in scientific terms? Does consciousness emerge from complex computations among brain neurons? Or is it a fundamental and irreducible property woven into the fabric of the universe?