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How consciousness comes into place is not really known and very much under debate until now. We distinguish consciousness from unconsciousness, the state where we sleep dreamless or where we are knocked out because of illness, a hard stroke on the head, by anesthesia, or medical treatment. Then there are states in between, where consciousness is fading away, like when going to sleep. There are states of mediation or other kinds of so-called altered states-of-mind. Psychoactive drugs are able to extend our consciousness and make things blur, flow, or very colorful.
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Bader, R. (2021). Music and Consciousness. In: How Music Works. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-67155-6_12
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