We have a language around consciousness that allows us to fluently talk about minds. These are not just the building blocks of our daily lives and the minutiae of our streams of consciousness, but also the material out of which the greatest artists and writers make their own lives. So we had to develop a huge number of sort of cognitive concepts, and that enriched our understanding of the intrinsic world. And one of the reasons that minds get portrayed so much more richly in contemporary literature or by the time you get, you know, to the Enlightenment is because those concepts were introduced.

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