About This Book
Presents the author's thesis that consciousness, in its manifestation in the human quality of understanding, is doing something that mere computation cannot; and attempts to understand how such non-computational action might arise within scientifically comprehensive physical laws.
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12h 19m
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180 WPM
8h 52m
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250 WPM
6h 20m
fast reader
350 WPM
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