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Key takeaways from Consciousness Is Just a Feeling

When he was a boy, Mark Solms obsessed over big existential questions. What happens when I die? What makes me who I am? He went on…

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the only thing really worth doing is to try and understand what existence is.

That’s the essence of what psychoanalysis is all about, how our rational, logical, cognitive processes can be distorted by emotional forces.

You’re saying consciousness is essentially about feelings. It’s not about cognition or intelligence.

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