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There are 22 theories of consciousness: Michael Pollan explains why none of them work

What is consciousness? It's one of science's greatest unsolved questions, and one that Michael Pollan has spent years trying to answer it. Here, Pollan unpacks why the brain is not a computer, why AI

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