"Consciousness permits us to develop the instruments of……" — Antonio Damasio
"Consciousness permits us to develop the instruments of culture - morality and justice, religion, art, economics and politics, science and technology. Those instruments allow us some measure of freedom in the confrontation with nature."
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A conscious mind is a mind with a self in it.
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The autobiographical self has prompted extended memory, reasoning, imagination, creativity and language. And out of that came the instruments of…
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The autobiographical self is built on the basis of past memories and memories of the plans that we have made;…
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We are not passive exhibitors of visual or auditory or tactile images. We have selves. We have a Me that…
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What happens [in a coma] is that you lose the grounding of the self, you no longer have access to…
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We are not thinking machines that feel; rather, we are feeling machines that think.
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