
Chris Frith on The Point of Consciousness
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Do Two Heads Are Better Than One?
Our mental life is a retrospective retelling of events to make a coherent story, rather than something that reports what actually happened. And i think through talking to other people, we come up with better way of understanding our behaviour and being more accurate in the way we describe how we make decisions. As long as they are both relatively equally competent, their joint decision is significantly better than the better one on their own. So that showing that, at least in these circumstances, two heads are better than one.
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