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Could consciousness all come down to the way things vibrate?
Why is my awareness here, while yours is over there?
Why is the universe split in two for each of us, into a subject and an infinity of objects?
- Tam Hunt
- The Conversation
How is each of us our own center of experience, receiving information about the rest of the world out there?
Why are some things conscious and others apparently not?
Is a rat conscious?
A gnat?
A bacterium?
These questions are all aspects of the ancient “mind-body problem,” which asks, essentially: What is the relationship between mind and matter?
It’s resisted a…