1 Sources of Self - Consciousness
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1. In thinking about the sources of self-consciousness we need to separate out two dimensions of the problem. There is, first, a genetic dimension. One might wonder about the origins of the capacity to think full-fledged self-conscious thoughts. That is to say, one might be asking about where this capacity comes from. How does it emerge in the normal course of human development? What are the genetic foundations on which it rests? Are there more primitive types of first-person contents from which full-fledged self-conscious thoughts emerge?
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