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In recent years there has been a resurgence of interest in consciousness from a number of viewpoints in this book the place of consciousness in modern science is discussed by leading authorities from a variety of disciplines including psychology philosophy and neurology. The significance of consciousness in modern science is discussed by leading authorities from a variety of disciplines. Consciousness in contemporary science anthony j marcel e bisiach eds phenomenal experience and functionalism. Materialist science is attempting to prove that consciousness is merely a byproduct of the complex processes in the brain and inseparable from the physical body in simpler terms your mind is the resulting process of neurons firing in your brain nothing more and nothing less. He states that modern science is based on two main assumptions a separateness of man from nature mind from matter organism from environment and the separability of the parts of a system or organism to understand how it really works and b that the scientific picture of reality should be based solely on physical sense data