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#317 - What Do We Know About Our Minds?

Making Sense with Sam Harris - Subscriber Content

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The Importance of Language in Learning Words

There are extreme versions of this where there are people who have imagined that consciousness itself is a linguistic phenomenon. That has always seemed completely insane to me, and I figured that here we have an equivocation what consciousness means. So presumably they're not denying that pre-verbal babies, or dogs and cats for that matter, could feel pleasure and pain,. Could be sentient in that sense.

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