THE HINT HALF GUESSED

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THOMAS METZINGER, a former fellow at the Hanse Institute for Advanced Study in Germany, is a visiting scholar in the philosophy department of the University of California at San Diego. The author of Subjekt und Selbstmodell (Paderborn: mentis), he has edited two major collections of texts on consciousness, Conscious Experience (Paderborn: mentis/Thorverton; UK: Imprint Academic) and Neural Correlates of Consciousness: Empirical and Conceptual Questions (forthcoming, MIT Press).

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Scientific American Magazine Vol 281 Issue 5This article was published with the title “The Hint Half Guessed” in Scientific American Magazine Vol. 281 No. 5 (), p. 125
doi:10.1038/scientificamerican111999-S7OrLaPb9PQ45ScpWENaq

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