Our conscious individuality

In “The Spiritual Brain,” Beauregaard and O’Leary write that “qualia” is “how things appear to us individually” (105). The person we know inside ourselves, the way we humans perceive colors and the world around us, is unique to each individual.

The brain is 80% water and home to 100 billion cells. And all of these cells are “replaced approximately 10,000 times in an average life span” (Beauregaard and O’Leary 111). And yet through all of… Continue reading →