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the program. Hello one of the greatest mysteries facing science and philosophy today is the

problem of consciousness. Can we explain our

perception of color or smell or what is likely being love in purely physical terms?

Can memory, conviction and reason be explained primarily in terms of neural firing sequences in the brain? and reasonably

believe that the problem was best solved by being ignored.

Was he right?

Could it be that the human mind is just not built to understand its own basis?

With me to try to unravel the complexities of consciousness at the philosopher Ted Hondrick, recently retired from his post as

Grote professor of the philosophy of mind and logic at university. Rick recently retired from his post as Grodde

of the Philosophy of Mind and Logic at University College London,

and the eminent physicist and mathematician Sir Roger Penrose,

author of, amongst many other books,

the large, the small, and the human mind he's a former

rous bold professor of mathematics at Oxford is it possible elliptically or

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