Faced with this mystery, philosophy has provided a range of options, from panpsychism (consciousness everywhere, more or less) to eliminative materialism (no consciousness, at least not how we think of it) and everything in between. But the science of consciousness isn’t about choosing from a set menu, however swanky the restaurant or skilled the chef. It’s more like cooking with whatever you can find in the fridge, where various bits and pieces from philosophy, neuroscience, psychology, computer science, psychiatry, machine learning, and so on are combined and recombined in different ways,
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