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What is consciousness, and what exactly does it do- if anything? How can the electrical firing of millions of tiny brain cells create our experience of the worl... » 

What is consciousness, and what exactly does it do- if anything? How can the electrical firing of millions of tiny brain cells create our experience of the world? Questioning whether consciousness itself may be an illusion, Susan Blackmore makes clear the enormous difficulty facing scientists and philosophers as they struggle to bridge the profound gap between the physical world and your private experiences of it. «