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Where is the seat of consciousness?

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Before addressing the “where” issue, we must first come up with a compelling definition fo “consciousness.” Whatever that definition may be, consciousness is not likely to have a clealry defined “seat” in the brain. It is likely to be a highly distributed phenomenon.

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