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THIS book is yet another attempt to present and explain the mysteries of consciousness for a broad audience. To his credit, J. Kevin O’Regan takes a provocative and fresh approach to a discipline that often seems to be chasing its tail in search of a way forward.

O’Regan is an experimental psychologist best known for his work on vision and perception, in particular for his co-discovery of change blindness – the way people fail to notice what seem like obvious changes in a scene before them. In the past decade he has pioneered a new theory of seeing to explain this and other phenomena and describe…

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