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What is conscious sensory experience, operationally?

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  04 February 2010

B. Libet
Affiliation:
Mt Zion Neurological Institute and Department of Physiology, University of California, San Francisco, Calif 94143

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Copyright © Cambridge University Press 1978

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