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Secrets of the Human Brain
Secrets of the Human Brain (SMAC)
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Short quote Understanding the mechanisms of self-awareness
Rank Discover 2
Requisites Social Psych
Biogenetics
Leads to Neural Grafting
Centauri Empathy
Base Facilities None
Secret Projects None
Unit Advances Hypnotic Trance

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"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.

Miscellaneous effects[]

First faction to discover Secrets of the Human Brain gains a free technological advance. Enables Fundamentalist Politics.

Alpha Centauri Technologies
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