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SYSK Choice: How Saying Less Gets You More & Why Objective Reality is Not Your Reality

Something You Should Know

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The Hard Problem of Consciousness

One of the biggest unsolved problems in science is the so called hard problem of consciousness. We have no ideas about how brain activity and conscious experiences rr a theory about their relationship. All we know that there are correlations. The reason we've got this wrong is we've assumed that brains and neurons exist when they're not perceived, and that they have causal powers. But strictly speaking, it's a fiction. We do not see real cause and effect in space and time. And so that's what i'm after here, is a deeper understanding of the true cause andeffect in reality that might allow us to then understand this hard problem of Consciousness. Thinking about this hurts my head too.

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