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Re:Ask HN: Where does consciousness come from? by lisper on Friday December 19, 2008 @11:21AM (#403471)
I recommend Dennet's book. In a nutshell, his thesis is that our subjective experience of consciousness in the here-and-now is an illusion, that what's really going on is the brain is writing and re-writing its memories to build up an internal model that is consistent with all the sensory input its receiving. This crazy-sounding idea is actually consistent with experimental results. You aren't really conscious, you just think you are. :-)

You might also enjoy: http://www.flownet.com/ron/QM.pdf, especially sections 5 and 6.

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Re:Ask HN: Where does consciousness come from? by olefoo on Friday December 19, 2008 @02:22PM (#403723)
> You aren't really conscious, you just think you are. :-)

And yesterday is a story you tell yourself to explain today ;-)

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Re:Ask HN: Where does consciousness come from? by FlorinAndrei on Friday December 19, 2008 @08:15PM (#404093)
> You aren't really conscious, you just think you are. :-)

Sounds like a line from a movie by the Wachowski brothers.

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