Sean Carroll: Is Consciousness Emergent?
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Cats Aren't Designed to Introspection
Imea: Our brains weren't designed to conceptiualize, conceptioalized their own activity. And similarly for introspection. I think it's tricky on demestic animals, because they've evolved a lot of behaviours precisely as a sort of yews of interface with the creatures. Se youo: i'm in favour of letting a thousand flowers bloom in all sorts of difficult questions and things like that. But one of the things that that many philosophers not ot disappoint is not the by word either, but i think there's a missed opportunity here. We're trying to explain the world as this rich, interconnected web of emergent descriptions and inter theoretic relations. There's
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