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...Consciousness is one of the great and lingering mysteries of science. Francis Crick, the Nobel laureate who co-discovered the structure of DNA, calls it "the major unsolved problem in biology."
Crick, who has spent the last couple of decades at the Salk Institute in La Jolla conducting brain research, believes that all of the brain's behaviors, including consciousness, result from the brain's physical processes. For more than a decade, he and colleagues like Christof Koch, a neurobiologist at the California Institute of Technology in Pasadena, have argued that human self-awareness is essentially the consequence of countless neurons, sensory cells and other physiological systems interacting with the environment to create the intangible entity we know as our minds.[continued]
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