“The mind-body problem is… the problem of getting consciousness to arise from biology,” writes Donald Hoffman of the Department of Cognitive Sciences at the University of California, Irvine. “So far, no one can build a scientific theory of how this might happen. This failure is so striking that it leads some to wonder if Homo sapiens lacks the necessary conceptual apparatus… If you want to solve the mind-body problem, you can take the physical as a given and explain the genesis of the conscious experience, or take conscious experience as a given and explain the genesis of the physical.” But
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