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From the Ted Talk by Antonio Damasio: The quest to understand consciousness
Unscramble the Blue Letters
The autobiographical self is bilut on the basis of past memories and memories of the plans that we have made; it's the lived past and the anticipated future. And the autobiographical self has prompted extended memory, reasoning, igiatoniman, creativity and language. And out of that came the instruments of crutlue — religions, justice, trade, the arts, secicne, technology. And it is within that culture that we really can get — and this is the ntoevly — something that is not entirely set by our biology. It is developed in the cueutlrs. It developed in collectives of human beings. And this is, of course, the culture where we have developed something that I like to call socio-cultural regulation.
Open Cloze
The autobiographical self is _____ on the basis of past memories and memories of the plans that we have made; it's the lived past and the anticipated future. And the autobiographical self has prompted extended memory, reasoning, ___________, creativity and language. And out of that came the instruments of _______ — religions, justice, trade, the arts, _______, technology. And it is within that culture that we really can get — and this is the _______ — something that is not entirely set by our biology. It is developed in the ________. It developed in collectives of human beings. And this is, of course, the culture where we have developed something that I like to call socio-cultural regulation.
Solution
- cultures
- novelty
- science
- imagination
- built
- culture
Original Text
The autobiographical self is built on the basis of past memories and memories of the plans that we have made; it's the lived past and the anticipated future. And the autobiographical self has prompted extended memory, reasoning, imagination, creativity and language. And out of that came the instruments of culture — religions, justice, trade, the arts, science, technology. And it is within that culture that we really can get — and this is the novelty — something that is not entirely set by our biology. It is developed in the cultures. It developed in collectives of human beings. And this is, of course, the culture where we have developed something that I like to call socio-cultural regulation.
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