
The Parallax View Ep. 49:Evolution of the Psyche
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The Psyche Is Able to Create This Overtone
In order to talk and speak and observe consciousness, there has to be a quality that kind of treats itself as an object. And i found it very interesting that the psyche is able to do that, you know, because if you think about, you mean, that you can think theice is the thinking process that's thinking about itself? Um, it's like as if you're singing a song and you're listening to yourself at the same time, right? Like this second degree of there, this consciousness of the consciousness, exactly. But this is an evolutionary emergence that doesn't happen in the animal kingdom,. Because the animal animals are not conscious of consciousness. They're just purely reacting instinct
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