Consciousness is our gateway to experience: It enables us to recognize Van Gogh’s starry skies, be enraptured by Beethoven’s Fifth, and stand in awe of a snowcapped mountain. Yet consciousness is subjective, personal, and famously difficult to examine.

Daniel Bor
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The book, "Consciousness is our gateway to experience: It enables us to recognize Van Gogh's starry skies, be enraptured by Beethoven's Fifth, and stand in awe of a snowcapped mountain. Yet consciousness is subjective, personal, and famously difficult to examine." is a book written by Ramachandran and Blakeslee. The concepts in the book talk about how we see and experience things.

Source: The Ravenous Brain: How The New Science Of Consciousness Explains Our Insatiable Search For Meaning

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