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EP 154 Iain McGilchrist on The Matter With Things

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The Evolution of Consciousness

Gerald Edlman's primary consciousness is that you and i share with a dog. And about the only thing in the consciousness of a frog are very simple black and white shapes moving around. When a shape moves at the right size and the right shape approximately, it triggers the tongue flicking out to try to grab it motion. The ability to improve your strike with your tongue on a fly is damn important to making ing as a fly. Single celled organisms can escape from their epetridices, unless the lids are battened down, they can solve mazes. It seems like that, that's our fundamental disagrement. I dotles address the evolutionary question. Well

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