Once I started working at Synaptics, I began studying biology and neuroscience on my own, subjects I had not studied at the university level. All of the neuroscience books I read described brain operation by reducing it to pure electrochemical activity with the hidden assumption, never explicitly stated, that this activity was identical to sentient perception. It seemed to me that there had to be both unconscious and conscious recognitions, the latter occurring through the feelings and sensations that are quite different from pure electrochemical activity. So, I asked Gary Lynch to explain how
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