"How is it that something as unconscious as the matter of the brain ever gives rise to something as immaterial as an experience?" Russell, a prominent thinker in the fields of consciousness and science, asserts that science cannot explain the fact that humans are conscious. This capacity for inner experience he calls "the great mystery."
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