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How might brains have feelings?

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Abrain going about its everyday business, solving problems, getting things done, being conscious of some of it, having feelings about some of it, sometimes. How do we represent that? Here is a brain (and spinal cord) solving a problem unconsciously.

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Cairns-Smith, A.G. (1999). How might brains have feelings?. In: Secrets of the Mind. Springer, New York, NY. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4612-1510-3_7

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