Secrets of the Human Brain

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Secrets of the Human Brain
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“Understanding the mechanisms of self-awareness”
Requires Social Psych, Biogenetics
Leads to Centauri Empathy, Neural Grafting
Enables
Ability Hypnotic Trance
Social choice Fundamentalist
Bonuses
"Secrets": first discoverer gains free tech
AI priority
Conquer: 1, Discover: 5, Build: 0, Explore: 3
There are only two ways in which we can account for a necessary agreement of experience with the concepts of its objects: either experience makes these concepts possible or these concepts make experience possible.
-- Immanuel Kant,
"Critique of Pure Reason", Datalinks

All past research on memory, learning, the senses, and other aspects of the brain did not answer one basic question: what is the biological mechanism of self-awareness? Research into Biogenetics and Social Psych finally resolves the last of the Secrets of the Human Brain, providing an understanding of the fundamentals of consciousness.