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Larry Barsalou - Habits of Mind

Mind & Life

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Are You Developing a Concept of Who You Are?

Self relevance, peace or i think one thing that humans do that no other species do is to develop a concept of ourselves. And we're the only species who does anything like this. All other species, their situated action cycle is largely being driven by biologically given drives and other sorts of goal setting That they have. They can't create some concept of themselves n that goes way beyond these biological drives,. So basically now it goes down into that self relevant thing we talked about earlier. When things happen in the world, it get filtered through your self concept, and you now start wanting to generate action that ports your self concept.

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