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  2. Evolution of human intelligence - Wikipedia

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    The great apes (Hominidae) show some cognitive and empathic abilities. Chimpanzees can make tools and use them to acquire foods and for social displays; they have mildly complex hunting strategies requiring cooperation, influence and rank; they are status conscious, manipulative and capable of deception; they can learn to use symbols and understand aspects of human language including some ...

  3. Sentience - Wikipedia

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    Water, for example, is a sentient being of the first order, as it is considered to possess only one sense, that of touch. [22] Sentience in Buddhism is the state of having senses. In Buddhism, there are six senses, the sixth being the subjective experience of the mind. Sentience is simply awareness prior to the arising of Skandha. Thus, an ...

  4. Affect theory - Wikipedia

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    Affect theory is a theory that seeks to organize affects, sometimes used interchangeably with emotions or subjectively experienced feelings, into discrete categories and to typify their physiological, social, interpersonal, and internalized manifestations.

  5. List of psychic abilities - Wikipedia

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    Extrasensory perception, or sixth sense, is an ability in itself and comprises a set of abilities.. Clairvoyance – The ability to see things and events that are happening far away and locate objects, places, and people using a sixth sense.

  6. Empathy - Wikipedia

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    Empathy is generally described as the ability to take on another person's perspective, to understand, feel, and possibly share and respond to their experience. [1] [2] [3] There are more (sometimes conflicting) definitions of empathy that include but are not limited to social, cognitive, and emotional processes primarily concerned with understanding others.

  7. Empath - Wikipedia

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    Despite their empathy, DEs aren't more vulnerable to mental health issues and retain some antagonistic tendencies, though they are generally more agreeable than those with high dark traits. Overall, the study suggests that Dark Empaths are a distinct group with a mix of positive and negative traits, showing that high empathy doesn't necessarily ...

  8. Cognitive inertia - Wikipedia

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    Cognitive inertia is the tendency for a particular orientation in how an individual thinks about an issue, belief, or strategy to resist change. Clinical and neuroscientific literature often defines it as a lack of motivation to generate distinct cognitive processes needed to attend to a problem or issue.

  9. Mind-blindness - Wikipedia

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    Mind-blindness, a lack of ToM, was later theorised to be equivalent to a lack of empathy, [4] although research published a year later suggests there is considerable overlap but not complete equivalence. [19] It was empirically demonstrated that processing of complex cognitive emotions is more difficult than processing simpler emotions.