On the mechanism of consciousness

Journal of Consciousness Studies

Volumn 4, Issue 3, 1997, Pages 231-247

  Cotterill, Rodney M J ^a  

^a TECHNICAL UNIVERSITY OF DENMARK   (Denmark)

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