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Consciousness Emerges

Somewhere along a tangled path, sights, sounds and insights pop into awareness

By Laura Sanders

- More than 2 years ago

Demystifying the Mind
This feature is the second installment in a three-part series on the scientific struggle to explain consciousness. To read the previous installment and see what’s in the next issue, click here.

Michael Morgenstern

FLIP-FLOP PERCEPTION Visual illusions offer a good way to study awareness. Though input into the retina remains constant, the mind toggles between perceiving a vase versus faces (left) or a box with a red back versus red front (middle).