
EP148 Antonio Damasio on Feeling and Knowing
The Jim Rutt Show
Symbolic Power - What Is the Difference Between Humans and Animals?
We may have a special class of conscious content called symbolic and that may be the only difference, or the main difference. And again, we could not be having this counter that we're having here if we did not have this amazing symbolic power that comes from language,. But it's all abouttranslations. Its this amazing fact that i am trying to translate my thoughts into words in the english language. I'm putting them in sentences, im put that in a system, a vocal system. You're picking that up, and youre doing the opposite. It really is an amazing process. And that, of course, is what is currently denied to most animals. Again, with some of these
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