Rudolf Jaenisch
Professor
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
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Questions for Rudolf Jaenisch: Creating mouse-human hybrids
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Questions for Rudolf Jaenisch: Creating mouse-human hybrids
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Life happens in real time, but experience may be composed in ragtime—like the music genre, full of offbeat notes and uneven rhythms. The assumption that waking life consists of a “stream” of conscious representations has inadvertently led consciousness science to its current impasse.