Nicholas Humphrey on Sentience: The Invention of Consciousness
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The Evolution of Consciousness and the Enhancement of the Self
I've spoken to dozens if not a hundred or more people about consciousness over the years and I am so excited to meet one first-rate scientist or philosopher who has changed his mind on anything that to me is just a triumph of understanding. So we're gonna now deal with some of the big core areas of the of the core argument in this book. We'll start with evolution because you say that after as a result of all of your studies with the phosphines in the eye blind side aesthetic preference social intelligence theory of mind even religious or each of those encounters have given you a different perspective. And then going further that the destination which I think I'm quoting you correctly of the evolutionary story is
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