221. Antonio Damasio — Feeling & Knowing: Making Minds Conscious
The Michael Shermer Show
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Is There Intelligence in Bacteria?
Intelligence is a way of engaging multiple maps, including the memory maps, to solve that particular problem based on what's come before in our environment. We know bacteria who clearly do not have nervous systems, who do not have minds, and yet they're intelligent. So it's very beautiful to think that there are living organisms that have this capacity of acting according to their interests. And you can't represent or now be cautious of none of that, if you don't have a nervous system. The nervous system is thes the big discovery of nature,. with neurons, you can make networks, and those works can represent imagesr can construct images, and those images can serve to guide you.
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