What makes something real?

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What is the color red?  What counts as a mountain versus a hill? What is a president, and what powers does a president have?  According to Lisa Feldman Barrett, PhD, a University Distinguished Professor of Psychology at Northeastern University, the answers have something important in common: They depend, at least in part, on people collectively assigning meaning to physical signals in the world. …

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