Is There a Qualitative Leap Between Apes and Humans?

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The way the neurons are organizes what they do. And then at some point it seems like there's a qualitative leap. So iam seeing you, and i have now a visual impression oof who you are, but iam also listening to your voice. In order to get my concept of michael themmer, i can actually join those two maps and make them interactive. You just add little bits and you come to very rich comp antonia.

In recent decades, many philosophers and cognitive scientists have declared the problem of consciousness unsolvable, but Antonio Damasio is convinced that recent findings across multiple scientific disciplines have given us a way to understand consciousness and its significance for human life. In his latest work, Feeling & Knowing, Damasio helps us understand why being conscious is not the same as sensing, why nervous systems are essential for the development of feelings, and why feeling opens the way to consciousness writ large. He combines the latest discoveries in various sciences with philosophy and discusses his original research, which has transformed our understanding of the brain and human behavior.