Sublime

perceptual narrowing.

“integrated”

the notion that you have a single self and that you could therefore distinguish your authentic desires from alien voices is just another liberal myth, debunked by the latest scientific research.

puzzled by the fact that many people seem to think that the social brain is simply about remembering who is who, that the whole issue is simply a memory game.

whether animals solve their ecological problems on their own by individual trial-and-error learning (and social groups form only because animals converge on rich food patches) or do so socially and live in groups in order to make this possible.

self-consciousness was the product of a positive feedback loop between perception and reflection, the two eventually amplifying each other

One thing that always seems to happen with such projects is that, after they achieve their intended aim, if the ‘evolutionary’ program is allowed to run further it produces no further improvements.

Turns out Chalmers went on to become a leading disrupter in consciousness research.

A thesis of this book is that understanding cannot be measured by external behavior;