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

Drawn from what Ralph Adolphs said

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consciousness What it is for there to be something it is like to be a system, and whether that can be measured.

What Ralph Adolphs actually said

  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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