Instead of thinking about one Big Explanation for Consciousness we should be looking for little explanations for all the many different kinds of consciousnesses—endogenous focus and exogenous openness, self-conscious planning and unself-conscious absorption, spotlight and lantern. Changes in consciousness as we grow older, or wiser, or develop new ways of learning about the world can be especially revealing. Rather than focusing in on just one aspect of consciousness that will prove to be the explanatory key, we should perhaps be more open to the whole manifold, variegated universe of
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