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BS 185 Stephen Fleming on "the neuroscience of self-awareness"

Brain Science with Ginger Campbell, MD: Neuroscience for Everyone

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The Capacity for Mind Reading and Explicit Medical Cognition

There's some tantalizing hints about how explicit medical cognition might have emerged in the course of human evolution and also how it emerges in child development. One perspective on this is that you can think of explicit medical cognition as almost like taking a third person perspective on yourself. We're constantly learning things about ourselves during that period, so I think we don't have a great understanding of how that process of explicit medical Cognition is getting in place. But I think we have some hints about good directions of research there.

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