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Episode #18 - The slippery truth

17m · Understanding Consciousness · 18 Nov 01:30

We go through the experimental setup, what it takes to ensure good, clean, sparkly data, and realise some harsh reality about the nature of finding truth.

You can read and download the paper here: https://doi.org/10.1093/nc/niy013

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