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I got interested in the emotions after studying patients who had lost the ability to emote and feel under certain circumstances. Many of those patients…

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When you experience the emotion of sadness, there will be changes in facial expression, and your body will be closed in, withdrawn.…
The mechanism of primary emotions does not describe the full range of emotional behaviors. They are, to be sure, the basic mechanism.…
More may have been learned about the brain and the mind in the 1990s - the so-called decade of the brain -…
Consciousness permits us to develop the instruments of culture - morality and justice, religion, art, economics and politics, science and technology. Those…
A conscious mind is a mind with a self in it.
How can you have this reference point, this stability, that is required to maintain the continuity of selves day after day?
Scott Fitzgerald said famously that 'he who invented consciousness would have a lot to be blamed for.' But he also forgot that…
The autobiographical self has prompted extended memory, reasoning, imagination, creativity and language. And out of that came the instruments of culture -…
The autobiographical self is built on the basis of past memories and memories of the plans that we have made; it's the…
We are not passive exhibitors of visual or auditory or tactile images. We have selves. We have a Me that is automatically…
What happens [in a coma] is that you lose the grounding of the self, you no longer have access to any feeling…
We are not thinking machines that feel; rather, we are feeling machines that think.

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This is not a rock opera. This is not Tommy. I can write songs that emote, and that's it. — John Mellencamp
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This is my living faith, an active faith, a faith of verbs: to question, explore, experiment, experience, walk, run, dance, play, eat,… — Terry Tempest Williams
There is a point when grief exceeds the human capacity to emote, and as a result one is strangely composed- — Abraham Verghese

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