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  • Scientists think this is where your consciousness lives

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    Andrew Tarantola
    Andrew Tarantola
    11.08.2016

    You're reading this right now. Yes, sure, your eyes are converting incoming photons into electrical impulses which travel up the optic nerve into your visual cortex, which in turn processes that information into coherent thought. But you -- the active consciousness that constitutes your personality-- are reading this. And now a team of Harvard scientists think they've figured out how that works.