Epstein Secrets

athan Gottschall, Literary Theorist, Washington & Jefferson College Brian Greene, Mathematical Physicist, Co

, UW Inst. Learning & Brain Sciences Hugo Mercier, Cognitive Scientist, University of Pennsylvania Cindy Meston, Psychologist, University of Texas Thomas Metzinger, Neuroscientist, Johannes Gutenberg University Jean-Baptiste Michel, Quantitative Scientist, Harvard, Google Geoffrey Miller, Evolutionary Psycholo

nsciousness (e.g. "The Ego Tunnel" by Thomas Metzinger [141) has something to say about that, but perhaps the best thought is that in writing this, Jefferson mistakes or misun- derstands the poetic / creative process. Writing a poem is not fundamentally an emotional, expres- sive explosion—it's a delibera

eel these thoughts and emotions? That's basi- cally what the Thring Test is trying to define. Recent work on consciousness (e.g. "The Ego Tunnel" by Thomas Metzinger [141) has something to say about that, but perhaps the best thought is that in writing this, Jefferson mistakes or misun- derstands the poetic / cr

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