In this recording of a talk given in 2014, Daniel Morley looks at the question of consciousness from a Marxist perspective and analyses one of the most complex of phenomena in nature – thought itself. What is consciousness? How does it arise? Where do our thoughts come from? And how do the mind and the material world relate to one another?
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