Neuronal dynamics and conscious experience: an example of reciprocal causation before epileptic seizures
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« He was thinking, incidentally, that there was a moment or two in his epileptic condition almost before the fit itself, when suddenly amid the sadness, spiritual darkness and depression, his brain seemed to catch fire...his sensation of being alive and his awareness increased tenfold...his mind and heart were flooded by a dazzling light...culminating in a great calm, full of serene and harmonious joy and hope, full of understanding and the knowledge of the final cause. The fit (which followed) was of course unendurable. » Fyodor Dostoyevsky, “The Idiot” (1868)
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