221. Antonio Damasio — Feeling & Knowing: Making Minds Conscious
The Michael Shermer Show
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When the Lights Come On?
Plants are a primitive form of consciousness, or feeling. They don't have the cells that could do it. There's no possibility in michael is like if you did not have the possibility of taking notes about our conversation. In a way, one simple metaphor for what's going on exactly. You see right now, i'm looking at your face on the screen of my computer, and you're looking at my face. And they represent different colours, different shades, different shapes. But there's nothing in a plant that can do that. The plant doesn't have e thethe the basics, doesn't have the engineering that are necessary to create that. We do through the nervous system
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