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The benefits of consciousness and the subconscious

29 October 2019

Consciousness is best understood in two dimensions: the level and the contents of consciousness, explains Dr Steve Fleming (UCL Queen Square Institute of Neurology), demonstrating with an experiment which highlights the limits of conscious attention.

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