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Quantum computing is challenging everything we thought we knew about technology, time, and even human consciousness. Some scientists theorize that some of the ways quantum computers process ...

The two major philosophical positions on the hard problem of consciousness are materialism and dualism. Dualists view mental and physical realms as distinct aspects of reality, while materialists ...