Roger Penrose has suggested that when we consider consciousness the usual physical rules for time may not apply. But that notion is based on a false interpretation of physiological observations.
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Glynn, I. Consciousness and time. Nature 348, 477–479 (1990). https://doi.org/10.1038/348477a0
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