How Do You Know What You're Thinking or Feeling?

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This is how i think about the problem of other minds, namely, how do i know what you're thinking or feeling? And i apply the copernican principle to myself. I'm not special, and if i see you's crying or you're angry, and i know what that feels like,. It's a reasonable deduction to make that you feel what i feel without having to, you knowtans my homusculus into your brain to know, know what that actually feels like. Absolutely we arer in complete agreement. To the int that very early on in the history of human culture, people wanted to generate theatre and tht. They waited until the twentieth century to create film

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.