[HN Gopher] Book Review: Consciousness and the Brain
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       Book Review: Consciousness and the Brain
        
       Author : feross
       Score  : 12 points
       Date   : 2022-05-14 00:01 UTC (22 hours ago)
        
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       | Syzygies wrote:
       | > This means that tasks which require working memory can not be
       | performed unconsciously.
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       | There's an old chestnut that one can't have thoughts without
       | words. As a visual thinker, I always found this assertion
       | preposterous.
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       | How does one explain the common experience of mathematicians and
       | scientists of awaking to a fully formed revelation, of complexity
       | far greater than the one bounce memory echo of 12x13?
        
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