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Editorial

Consciousness

by Rick Lewis

It gives me particular pleasure to introduce an issue focussing on consciousness, as I myself am sometimes conscious. I know the same goes for many of you. But there is a great deal of debate among philosophers about what this actually means.

The nature of consciousness is a philosophical problem which has come to centre stage mainly in the last few years. As the neuroscientists have gradually found out more and more about the workings of the brain, philosophers have wondered whether any part of the mind is inaccessible to scientific investigation.

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