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A mind wrapped in skin and bone can feel like the obvious model for consciousness. But that assumption may say more about where you live than about what consciousness really requires.

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It was 7 p.m. on a Sunday. The theater doors — which at any ordinary performance would have been firmly shut by now — stood ...

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