What would the late media philosopher, Marshall McLuhan, say about politics?

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Thomas Nagel, a distinguished American philosopher, once remarked that to say now that consciousness is a physical state of the brain is to be in the position of an ancient Greek who proclaims that matter is energy: what he says is true, but there is no understanding of how it can be true, no framework into which to fit the discovery.

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"For the last 20 years, the buzz about consciousness has been such that all kinds of smart people in all kinds of fields say this is mount Olympus, " says Daniel Dennett, the Tufts philosopher whose work has helped guide cognitive science.

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As pop philosopher Alain De Botton wrote in "The Art of Travel, " "There is an urge to say: I was here, I felt this, and it matters!"

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