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why do we enjoy poetry From the perspective of neuroscience?
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RE: why do we enjoy poetry From the perspective of neuroscience?
(December 31, 2018 at 10:57 am)bennyboy Wrote: By the way, Zainab, if nobody's mentioned it, the essential issue is about "qualia," knowing what things are like-- what it's like to taste chocolate, for example.

We are our bodies.  Stuff which happens to our bodies happens to us.  Thus "qualia" only become a problem when people think of consciousness as somehow independent of the body.  But our bodies are what are conscious.
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RE: why do we enjoy poetry From the perspective of neuroscience? - by Alan V - December 31, 2018 at 2:33 pm

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