BS 188 Anil Seth on Consciousness
Brain Science with Ginger Campbell, MD: Neuroscience for Everyone
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Is That Right?
For descart non human animals, he called them beast machines. They did not benefit from the kinds of rational minds that we humans had. After descarte there was another philosopher, thinker, scientist of the time, julien la matri,. He came up with this idea of lon machine or man machine. And thes conclusion was, well, if animals are merely beast machines, then humans are animals too, so we must also be and blood robots. We can only understand consciousness from perspective of thinking of conscious systems as living systems. Soit's a slightly weaker claim than other people might make. There's been a wealth of people who've increasingly put out these strong connections between
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