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Cherished by poets, savored by gourmets, revered by lovers, and worshiped by mystics, consciousness is also a landscape of guilt and agony, remorse and pain. For the scientist and the philosopher, consciousness is intriguing because it continues—after centuries of study—to challenge our need to understand and to explain. We continue to wonder just what it is.
Either engineers must become poets or poets must become engineers Norbert Wiener
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Scott, A. (1995). A Century of Brain-Mind Theory. In: Stairway to the Mind. Springer, New York, NY. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4612-2510-2_7
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