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Ian Leslie on Curiosity

EconTalk

CHAPTER

The Birth of Consciousness

A great novel is to give you a really wise person's insight into what makes somebody tick who's not like you, probably. And i thought, i've never really thought about that thout that was really a wonderful wonderful idea. The whole birth of consciousness comes from freud, our modern language really came before freud, in the form of of fiction. It arose at the same time that industrialized cities were forming in the eighteenth century. People woreh seeing all these different people around and having to think about how do i get along? Or what do i think about these people? What's it like to be the novel kind of answers that question.

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