What’s changed in recent years is newfound access to observable and measurable features of brain activity that, at the very least, access processes that reliably accompany conscious experience. When researchers can use functional magnetic resonance imaging to meticulously track blood flow supporting neural activity, or insert deep brain probes to detect electrical impulses firing along individual neurons, or use electroencephalograms to monitor electromagnetic waves rippling across the brain, and when the data reveal clear patterns that mirror both observed behavior and reports of inner
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