What is consciousness?
Published: 12th February, 2020 at 00:00
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The battle to solve the greatest mystery in science.

What is consciousness?
To discover what makes us self-aware, researchers from around the world are going head-to-head in a grand competition to determine where consciousness really comes from.
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