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Awe is a uniquely human emotion, resting on the metacognitive ability to detach conscious experience from the here and now.

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  1. Ralph Adolphs

    Bren Professor of Psychology

    I think it's a uniquely at least as we have it it's uniquely human emotion and it's based on a broad sort of metacognitive ability we have which is to detach our conscious experience from the here and now and do like mental time travel.

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