221. Antonio Damasio — Feeling & Knowing: Making Minds Conscious
The Michael Shermer Show
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The Complexity of Organisms Without a Nervous System
When you look at t very simple organisms without nervous system, a lot of the regulation of the life of that organism is done non consciously. But it's not being regulated in a mental sense. That organism does not represent in a mental state that there's a failure of something or that there's plenitude of whatwat you need. And so what is interesting is that only appears when organisms are a more complex, when they are multicellular and their lives lead to be more complicated. Then there's this edding of elements that are for a nervous system. The real key is to say we are conscious when we know about what is going on in our mind. This would be very
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