Nicholas Humphrey on Sentience: The Invention of Consciousness
Closer To Truth
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The Ip Sundrum
The term ip sundrum I take from conundrum. Richard Gregory agreed with me that a good word for that impossible object would be the Greg Gundrum called after him and so when later on I came to saying well there's something rather like the impossible triangle in our heads which we then sing it as having these properties. It's it's it's a self-generated conundrum then from ipsee for self and conundrum again I call it the ip sundrum but I wanted it to be a word which would stop people in their tracks because I think it's a it's a surprising and and rather shocking idea that there's something in the brain which does have a real thing in the brain
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