Towards solving the hard problem of consciousness: The varieties of brain resonances and the conscious experiences that they support.. Neural This is a PDF file of an unedited manuscript
Trang 1Stephen Grossberg
DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.neunet.2016.11.003
Received date: 2 August 2016
Accepted date: 20 November 2016
Please cite this article as: Grossberg, S Towards solving the hard problem of consciousness: The varieties of brain resonances and the conscious experiences that they support Neural
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