Annual Review - University of Toronto Scarborough

Probing
the ‘terrible
mystery’
while UTSC neuroscientists
strive to demonstrate the
electrochemical workings
of neuronal networks in the
human brain, the University’s
philosophers, such as
Professor bill Seager, tackle
the mind/brain enigma
from a different, yet no less
important, perspective.
Seager, who has written two
books on consciousness,
works to understand what
he calls a “terrible mystery”:
how might subjective
emotions and awareness –
the aspects of consciousness
that make life worth living
– depend on the brain?
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