#268 Antonio Damasio - Professor of Neuroscience, Psychology & Philosophy on Making Minds Conscious
What Got You There with Sean DeLaney
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Hormeostises Are Governing Hormoses
Bacteria and many other simple creatures are intelligent, but the intelligenceis is covert. There they don't know that they're intelligent. And yes, they do, yet they do it. They need to have energy sources to nourish themselves in order to go through the days of their life. But let's be careful. They're doing all this very intelligently, but without knowing they're doing it. Whereas we, and many other creatures, complex creatures before us, because we have a nervous system, having the possibility of feeling, can map out the world around us. So when you have pain, youill have the possibility of withdrawing from what caused pain in you. And if you
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