The Search for Consciousness.
This article examines the scientific and philosophical challenges of understanding human consciousness, focusing on advances in brain imaging and neural decoding. Functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI) and artificial intelligence have enabled researchers to observe and partially reconstruct pa...
| Publicado en: | Skeptic Vol. 31; no. 3; pp. 4 - 13 |
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2026
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