Is There Something Unique About My Thoughts?

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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

In recent decades, many philosophers and cognitive scientists have declared the problem of consciousness unsolvable, but Antonio Damasio is convinced that recent findings across multiple scientific disciplines have given us a way to understand consciousness and its significance for human life. In his latest work, Feeling & Knowing, Damasio helps us understand why being conscious is not the same as sensing, why nervous systems are essential for the development of feelings, and why feeling opens the way to consciousness writ large. He combines the latest discoveries in various sciences with philosophy and discusses his original research, which has transformed our understanding of the brain and human behavior.