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//The attention schema theory satisfies two problems of understanding consciousness, said
Aaron Schurger, a senior researcher of cognitive neuroscience at the Brain Mind Institute
at the École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne in Switzerland who received his doctorate
from Princeton in 2009. The "easy" problem relates to correlating brain activity with the
presence and absence of consciousness, he said. The "hard" problem has been to determine
how consciousness comes about in the first place. Essentially all existing theories of
consciousness have addressed only the easy problem. Graziano shows that the solution to
the hard problem might be that the brain describes some of the information that it is
actively processing as conscious because that is a useful description of its own process
of attention, Schurger said.//
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//"Michael's theory explains the connection between attention and consciousness in a very
elegant and compelling way," Schurger said.//
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//"His theory is the first theory that I know of to take both the easy and the hard
problems head on," he said. "That is a gaping hole in all other modern theories, and it is
deftly plugged by Michael's theory. Even if you think his theory is wrong, his theory
reminds us that any theory that avoids the hard problem has almost certainly missed the
mark, because a plausible solution — his theory — exists that does not appeal to magic or
mysterious, as-yet-unexplained phenomena."/
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Brent
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