To this day many people believe that consciousness is something special. It doesn’t fit within the natural world. It’s mysterious to us, therefore it must have a mysterious source. It seems that everything is magical to ignorant people.
Our forebears believed that an elan vital, a vital force, distinguished living things from nonliving things. It infused [...]
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On the mystery of human consciousness
Posted in Culture, Philosophy, Psychology on 4 July 2008 | Leave a Comment »
