Our experience of experience itself has long been the greatest mystery in the mind sciences. How can the physical activity of tiny, gooey cells in our cranium produce our wondrous experience of joy, and pain, and recognizing our friends, and understanding the meaning of the words that we are reading or listening to?
But what matters even more than the details of how physical activity in our brain gets converted into the intangible banquet of awareness is what this explanation can do for us. How can knowing how consciousness works help our lives?
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The journey of the mind—so far—is the chronicle of purpose winning ever-more daunting battles with chaos. Minds defeat chaos by ascending to new stages of intelligence, autonomy, and awareness. Each new stage of thinking in the universe masters a broader scope of physical reality than the stage before. This makes it clear that human beings are not the ultimate destination of the journey of the mind at all.
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