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221. Antonio Damasio — Feeling & Knowing: Making Minds Conscious

The Michael Shermer Show

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

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

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