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A significant portion of science fiction attempts the impossible task of rendering vividly the consciousness not just of unusual, mutant or bioengineered humans, but also of enhanced animals from earthly stock and alien life forms ranging from swarms of quantum-scale intelligences to aware stars and entire galaxies.
If consciousness is distributed across billions of individual neurons that are located in innumerable brain regions at different hierarchical levels of the nervous system, does it follow that each of these neurons individually “possesses” consciousness? And even if these neurons are networked together, is there something physically unified in the brain that has the same grain as the unified mind?
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Broderick, D. (2018). What Is It Like to Be a Conscious SF Writer?. In: Consciousness and Science Fiction. Science and Fiction. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-00599-3_3
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