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you experience the emotion of sadness, there will be changes in facial expression, and your body will be closed in, withdrawn.…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