Imagine that you are offered to sleep for a year, and in a year to wake up a successful and rich person - will you agree? I am.
The hard problem of consciousness
Consciousness is the closest thing to each of us. What could be closer than your own existence? Paradoxically, the most obvious and close to each person is also one of the most difficult scientific problems (and many scientists quite reasonably believe that the most difficult; moreover, so difficult that some of them seriously doubt the possibility of solving the riddle of consciousness in principle (see. , eg [1])). Today there is no generally accepted idea of the nature of consciousness and its function, and in general - "nothing worthwhile has been written about it yet."
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