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#557 Stephen Fleming - Know Thyself: The New Science of Self-Awareness

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The Evolution of Self Awareness in Animals

There are many aspects of meter cognition that do seem tbe shared quite widely with other animal species. It used to be thought that meta cognition was somehow uniquely human, and i think there's now good evidence that that's not the case. In order to have fully fledged self awareness you're also going to need some sort of theory of mind. And so far my understanding is that even in our nearest a evolutionary relative, in the chimpanzee, there hasn't been a knockout demonstration of theory ofmind chimpanzi.

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