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A Atkin
1 paper in the library · publishing 1992
Medical Hypotheses
August 1992
A Atkin
Can consciousness be understood as the ongoing active creation of information (of meaning)? 'Emergence', the central concept in this hypothesis, plays an essentially different role in it than in theories previously proposed.
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