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May 2021
1h 15m

What is consciousness?

Revolutionary Communist Party
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What is consciousness? How does it arise? Where do our thoughts come from? And how do the mind and the material world relate to one another? In this recording of a talk given in 2014, Daniel Morley looks at the question of consciousness from a Marxist perspective and analyses one of the most complex of phenomena in nature - thought itself. Get involved wit ... Show More
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