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Emblems of Awareness
from Science News
Humankind's sharpest minds have figured out some of nature's deepest secrets. Why the sun shines. How humans evolved from single-celled life. Why an apple
falls to the ground. Humans have conceived and built giant telescopes that glimpse galaxies billions of light-years away and microscopes that illuminate the
contours of a single atom. Yet the peculiar quality that enabled such flashes of scientific insight and grand achievements remains a mystery:
consciousness.
Though in some ways deeply familiar, consciousness is at the same time foreign to those in its possession. Deciphering the cryptic machinations of the
brain--and how they create a mind--poses one of the last great challenges facing the scientific world.
For a long time, the very question was considered to be in poor taste, acceptable for philosophical musing but outside the bounds of real science.
Whispers of the C-word were met with scorn in polite scientific society.
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