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“The neural basis of consciousness — specifically the first-hand experience of it — comes from large-scale interactions between different brain regions via neural oscillatory activity. That would render consciousness an emergent property of multiple interacting networks, so it couldn’t be reduced to any single network.
…an individual’s neural activity is embodied in their interactions with the world.
Now, we realize that other people may play a role.
An upshot of this proposal is that it can potentially validate our most intimate experiences: When we become aware that ‘we’ are sharing a moment with someone else, it is no longer necessarily the case that we are fundamentally separated by our distinct heads — we could really be two individuals sharing in one and the same unfolding experience”