Purpose, Value, Evolution, Consciousness, Sentience, Life & Emergence of Mind From Matter | Terrence Deacon | 95
Mind & Matter
The Source of What's Most Noble About Humanity
We hold each other responsible for doing simulations of what each other's experiences are. We can be ecstatic by looking at a particular piece of artwork or listening to music, just form. The experience of humor, that's an emotion. It's an emotion that's produced by this sort of twist of logic. And yet it's a remarkably powerful experience. One of the things that symbols have done is they have made it possible to juxtapose various complex emotions. Most normal species have separate. They occur separately. But in some sense our emotions are more complex than other species because we're capable of this kind of representation. That almost certainly means that our emotional systems are also capable of getting into emotional states
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