Ludwig Wittgenstein

"The feeling of an unbridgeable gulf between consciousness and brain-process:When does this feeling occur in the present case?It is when I (for example) turn my attention in a particular way on to my own consciousness, and, astonished, say to myself: THIS is supposed to be produced by a process in the brain!--as it were clutching my forehead."

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Source: Ludwig Wittgenstein (1958). “Philosophical investigations”

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Ludwig Wittgenstein

Ludwig Wittgenstein

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Ludwig Wittgenstein was a 20th-century philosopher known for his work on language, logic, and the philosophy of mind, particularly in 'Tractatus Logico-Philosophicus'.

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