How can human brains run our physical bodies and produce our mental minds? What are the general principles of human brain function? Neuroscience can tackle the physical activities, everyone agrees, but can neuroscience discern the mental? Yes, neuroscience can make progress, but can it completely explain the inner experience of conscious awareness? Ever?

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Eran Zaidel is Professor Emeritus of Behavioral Neuroscience and of Cognition in the Department of Psychology at UCLA, and a member of UCLA’s Brain Research Institute

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