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Bridging consciousness to our narrative brain: evolutionary insights

2025-08-23

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<p>Human consciousness is said to be largely a form of inner speech. At the same time, humans are endowed with outstanding narrative abilities, which go beyond our linguistic capacity, even if they become potentiated by language. In this paper, we argue that as we evolved more prosocial, selected changes in the hardware of our “narrative brain”, together with selected changes in our behavior that favored the compl...

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44079c53-351f-565c-836f-ae4131fa4296
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10.31234/osf.io/u5adx_v1
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