There exists anUniversal Consciousness,what henri Bergson calls as’elan vital’,Indian Philosophy as ‘Chiththa’.
Individual Consciousness is perceived due to constraits of Space and Time .
It is no wonder that children with accumulation of thought processes fully operational,that is they feel the thoughts-not think the thoughts,are able to instinctively perceive others’ emotions and Thought processes.
For that matter even adults can perceive the same if they try not to think while perceiving and pay attention to what we normally call as ‘gut feeling’
care should be exercised to determine whether it is really agut feeling or a prejudiced one.
The feeling/impression one gets immediately without an iota of conscious deliberation is the ‘gut feeling’.
Story:
Babies as young as seven months old may be able to take into account the thoughts and beliefs of other people, according to a paper published today inScience1. Called ‘theory of mind’, this ability is central to human cooperation.
The finding provides evidence for the earliest awareness in infants so far of others’ perspectives, says lead author Ágnes Kovács, a developmental psychologist at the Hungarian Academy of Sciences in Budapest. The research team made the discovery by measuring a simple behaviour — how long infants stare at a scene — in experiments that did not require infants to explicitly assess others’ thoughts or predict their actions.
Although many past studies have suggested that the ability to infer another person’s viewpoint does not arise until the age of four, scientists demonstrated in 2005 and 2007, respectively, that 15- and 13-month-old infants can, in some situations, comprehend the beliefs of others2,3.
http://www.nature.com/news/2010/101223/full/news.2010.697.html
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