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From feeling to knowing with Antonio Damasio

The Decision Corner

CHAPTER

Consciousness and Sensing

Sensing is simple receptivity to one's environment. Even level of a single celled organism, we have this kind of receptivity. Then is an additional layer that's on top of that. It's not just having this kind of integrated sense of feeling, but that sense of that those integrated feelings actually belong to me. We're starting to drop the idea that consciousness lives from the neck up. This i think, helps us to overcome a lot of challenges that we were previously trying to tangle with with the hard problem. I am first timidly and now so timidly saying it's exactly the opposite - youare not going to understand how we end up being more like homor

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