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Yuval sees consciousness as a small band width of the full spectrum of mental states. he compared it to the band of visible light being a small part of the broader electromagnetic spectrum. "similarly, the spectrum of possible mental states may be infinite, but science has studied only two tiny sections of it: the sub-normative and the WEIRD. = Western Educated Industrial Rich and Democratic (WEIRD) societies."