Will we ever discover what consciousness is? 
For these days of reflection at the end of 2014 we collected some TED-talks as an introduction to the subject.
John Searle: Our shared condition — consciousness
David Chalmers: How do you explain consciousness?
David Brooks: The social animal
Antonio Damasio: The quest to understand consciousness
Graham Hancock – The War on Consciousness
On “Signatures of Consciousness: A Talk by Stanislas Dehaene”
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