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Living in Multiple Worlds

Posted on September 05, 2008

This article was was written by Jamais Cascio in March 2006. We're republishing it here as part of our month-long editorial retrospective.There's a theory in cognitive science that suggests that one of the hallmarks of human consciousness is the ability to model another person's thoughts in one's own brain, and do so with reasonable accuracy. It's not simply being able to read expressions, although that's part of it; humans can imagine how another person's thought processes, which may differ significantly from their own, would play out in reaction to a given situation. If you think about it, t...

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