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Is Consciousness Everywhere: The Biggest Mistake in Consciousness Research
The Mirror Point · June 15, 2026
What if consciousness isn't confined to brains at all—and our insistence that it is has been the central blind spot of consciousness research? Explore how slime molds navigating mazes, plants responding with surprising intelligence, and cutting-edge research on distributed systems are challenging the assumption of "brain-centrism" and opening the door to understanding mind as a far more fundamental and widespread phenomenon than neuroscience has permitted us to imagine.
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