Probing how Americans think about mental life
(WorldNews Health)

October 20, 2017 Most people don`t have answers to the big questions about consciousness or the meaning of life, but they do have a way of thinking about and categorizing mental life. It comes down to three things - body, heart and mind. By Milenko Martinovich `Is a robot capable of experiencing guilt?` was one of the questions Stanford researchers asked to probe how people make sense of the sensations, emotions and thoughts that make up mental life.(Image credit: PhonlamaiPhon / Getty Images) When Stanford researchers asked people to think about the sensations and emotions of inanimate or non-human entities, they got a glimpse into how those people think about mental life. What they found...