The question of consciousness—how subjective experience can arise from activity in the brain—is arguably the greatest question in science, so much so that it's become well known simply as “the hard problem”, a term introduced by the philosopher David Chalmers. Attempts to answer the question of consciousness draw on many disciplines—not just neuroscience and psychology, but physics, mathematics, and philosophy as well. Making explorations of this question accessible to a general audience is a hard problem in itself, but Paul Nunez manages to do just that in The New Science of Consciousness.

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思想节奏

意识问题（主观体验如何从大脑的活动中产生）可以说是科学中最重要的问题，以至于它已被简单地称为“难题”，这是哲学家戴维·查默斯（David Chalmers）提出的。回答意识问题的尝试涉及许多学科，不仅是神经科学和心理学，还包括物理学，数学和哲学。使普通大众都可以探讨这个问题本身就是一个难题，但保罗·努涅斯（Paul Nunez）设法在《新意识科学》中做到了这一点。