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

The Michael Shermer Show

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How Do You Make a Brain?

Dan O'Brien: Neurons become aware that this is what we're doing, even though no individual neuron has any idea what it's doing exactly. How does that happen? He says when you create representations of represent so you really ascent by making, by making qroton qot, the story more and more clear. Andt a certain point there are representations that contain all the others. They're imbeddedand that's how, that's how we come to make, to make minds and to create this very rich here We're going teomslike en let's say we in from quantitative differences the number of cells in an organism, or the number of nerve cells in

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