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Our aim in this symposium, as Sir John Eccles has reminded us, is to “search for new insights” into the cerebral basis of consciousness. This is an opportunity to take stock of our armament and strategy as well as of our prizes; and the present paper sets out to contribute mainly to the first of these activities.
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MacKay, D.M. (1965). Cerebral Organization and the Conscious Control of Action. In: Eccles, J.C. (eds) Brain and Conscious Experience. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-49168-9_17
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