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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you experience the emotion of sadness, there will be changes in facial expression, and your body will be closed in, withdrawn.…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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As the seconds of our lives are ticking away, you have to realize that life needs to be an adventure.
— Hans Zimmer
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What's the point of getting up in the morning unless you're gonna have an adventure? As the moments of our life are…
— Hans Zimmer
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And if I were to open you up - would you see anything less remarkable? Less intricately dazzling, in its squelching, spongy…
— K. W. Jeter
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I don't want to sit on the sidelines and not value the gift of being here. Instead of the idea of time…
— Tori Amos
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Imagine, for example, birds. When they look out at the world, they have a sense that they are alive. If they are…
— Antonio Damasio
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When you see runners in town is easy to distinguish beginners from veterans. The ones panting are beginners; the ones with quiet,…
— Haruki Murakami
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The truth that makes us free is always ticking away like a time-bomb in the basement of everybody's church.
— Robert Farrar Capon
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I try very hard not to take work home, but it can be tricky. Sometimes it feels as if you are wearing…
— Anne-Marie Duff
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I watch the clock ticking away and keep thinking about the things you do and the people you meet. The agony of…
— Superman
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The realisation that all things that society gives us is an illusion is the only way to free yourself from the tribe.…
— Jeremy Limn
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As you're reading this, your life's getting shorter. Its ticking away. I'm not saying this to frighten you. Or even scare you.…
— Unknown Author
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Live your life every moment of every day, you never know what could happen. Your life is ticking away a minute at…
— Julia Doherty
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