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Consciousness can be startlingly intense. It is the most vivid of phenomena; nothing is more real to us. But it can be frustratingly diaphanous: in talking about conscious experience, it is notoriously difficult to pin down the subject matter.

— David Chalmers The Conscious Mind: In Search of a Fundamental Theory (1996)

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