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#557 Stephen Fleming - Know Thyself: The New Science of Self-Awareness

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Is There a Connection Between Theory of Mind and Metacognition?

i was trying to understand if self awareness was really a difference in kind, and in that case, only humans would possess it. I think you do need a qualitatively different sort of er computational capacity which is what i think theory of mine might give you. But the evidence for this is relatively weak still. We did a meter analysis of brain imaging studies of met cognition and brain imaging Studies of of mind. And we found no systematic overlap in the kind of brain regions implicated in theory of mind and in mati cognition. That suggests perhaps the common competationaf machinery.

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