Neural Plasticity and Consciousness
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In fact, these questions indicate that there are three different types of explanatory gap for consciousness. There’s the absolute gap: Why should neural processes be ‘accompanied’ by any conscious experience at all? And there are two comparative gaps. First, there’s the intermodal comparative gap: Why does certain neural activity give rise to visual rather than auditory experience, say? Second, there’s the intramodal comparative gap: Why does certain neural activity give rise to experience as of red, say, rather than experience as of green?
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