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221. Antonio Damasio — Feeling & Knowing: Making Minds Conscious

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Is There Something Unique About My Thoughts?

At some point self awareness kicks in. But if i put my dog in front of a mirror, he has no idea that's him. So then there's that complete attachment of of body and nervous system which is capable of creating all those thoughts that are part of our mind. And so that they constantly, what we think is constantly. We could use a word like reverberation, which probably is easy for people t understand. You think, and that reversse in your body. There's certain things that go on in terms of reverbing in your body that, gess what, get expressed mentally. The too way conversation is very easy to explain, because it's right in the same

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