Although Francis Crick warned Christof Koch about studying consciousness, Christof refused to give up and and eventually won Francis over. In 1990, they wrote a seminal paper about what they called “neural correlates of consciousness” (NCCs), asking which specific brain processes corresponded to conscious experiences. For thousands of years, thinkers had had access to the information processing in their brains only via their subjective experience and behavior. Crick and Koch pointed out that brain-reading technology was suddenly providing independent access to this information, allowing
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