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282. Anil Seth on the Hard Problem of Consciousness, the Self, and the Essence of Volition

The Michael Shermer Show

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Is There a Difference Between Self Recognition and Self Recognition?

Alison gopnis experiments in the nineties where something happens between the age of three and four, in which children all of a sudden can take the perspective of another child. I was really lucky a few years ago i had a chance to go to a place called a cayo santiago,. Its also known as monkey island. It's off the coast of pueta rico. And i was there with lorry santos, who's a primatologist. He was trying to see whether monkey a could understand the world from the perspective of monkey b. But then you're, you just ou don't know really what is in their minds. When you try

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