Comments by "Peter deWolf" (@StoneShards) on "The Biology of Good and Evil | Frans de Waal | EP 269" video.

  1. I agree that children socialize themselves. This means they naturally act, or operate, as the ultimate authority! This never changes.
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  2. Wasps, spiders...maybe following the traces of patterns in the collective of wasps, spiders. Perhaps, those patterns arise from amassed individual experience. They possess "consciousness" as does everything, including gross matter, which is just the capacity of response. These creatures possess awareness, that delicate and perpetual tension between attention and intention, too--but not self-conscious awareness. That requires "reflection" in awareness, yielding "self-consciousness". "Experience" is the anchor we sink into the substratum of existence, which we later re-experience as "memory". It isn't memories that are "stored" in brain matter, but, rather the mechanism of memory recollection operation. Self-conscious awareness is how and why we are different from all other animals.
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