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Could consciousness all come down to the way things vibrate?

  • Written by Tam Hunt, Affiliate Guest in Psychology, University of California, Santa Barbara
What do synchronized vibrations add to the mind/body question?agsandrew/Shutterstock.com

Why is my awareness here, while yours is over there? Why is the universe split in two for each of us, into a subject and an infinity of objects? How is each of us our own center of experience, receiving information about the rest of the world out there? Why are...

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