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How Do We Know That You Really Feel?
Cognitive scientists tend to take human consciousness as their starting point definition of what we mean by consciousness. When you show them all the evidence for the view, yarks view, that raw feelings are generated in and of themselves in the brain stem they start disagreeing with it. And at that point, i am afraid it becomes ideological. Because the evidence now is so overwhelming in science, you look for converging lines of evidence using different methods. And this is what we've done. The converginglines of evidence all point to the conclusion that sub-cortical processes such as emotions generate themselves,. A sadly deididis case where antonio masio managed to climb down his