Neuroscience of Consciousness | Raymond Tallis, Markus Gabriel, Susana Martinez Conde

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Must we accept that we are just machines?

Neuroscientists believe that our minds and consciousness are no more than matter and mechanism. But if they are right, is all meaning, purpose and feeling illusory? Must we accept that we are just machines? Or do the secrets of experience lie beyond neuroscience's grasp, requiring an alternative account of who we are?

Neurophilosopher Susanna Martinez-Conde, author of Aping Manckind Raymond Tallis and German philosopher and author of I am Not a Brain Markus Gabriel seek answers to the mystery of consciousness.

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