| 11 | In Search of the Science of Consciousness |
INTRODUCTION
The return of consciousness to the psychological sciences seems, at the moment, inevitable. After a lengthy exile from the world of research and carrying a reputation of “bad science,” consciousness finally strikes back. The number of books and articles published on this subject during the last few years is amazing, and the amount of interest and attention philosophers and cognitive scientists have devoted to consciousness is steadily growing.
However, there is not yet any genuine paradigm of consciousness research: There are no universally accepted core assumptions on which a general theory of consciousness could be built. There certainly ...
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