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- Nov 07, 2020
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- Expedient
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- Nov 07, 2020
Why do we have a brain in the first place? Not to write books, articles, or plays; not to do science or play music. Brains develop because they are an expedient way of managing life in a body.
- Mind
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- Nov 07, 2020
In 'Self Comes to Mind' I pay a lot of attention to simple creatures without brains or minds, because those 'cartooned abstractions of who we are' operate on precisely the same principles that we do.
- Freedom
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- Nov 07, 2020
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.
- Help
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- Nov 07, 2020
I continue to be fascinated by the fact that feelings are not just the shady side of reason but that they help us to reach decisions as well.
- Brain
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- Nov 07, 2020
Interestingly enough, not all feelings result from the body's reaction to external stimuli. Sometimes changes are purely simulated in the brain maps.
- Different
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- Nov 07, 2020
To me, body and mind are different aspects of specific biological processes.
- Feelings
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- Nov 07, 2020
Consciousness, much like our feelings, is based on a representation of the body and how it changes when reacting to certain stimuli. Self-image would be unthinkable without this representation.
- Brain
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- Nov 07, 2020
There is no such thing as a disembodied mind. The mind is implanted in the brain, and the brain is implanted in the body.
- Compassion
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- Nov 07, 2020
When you deal with something like compassion for physical pain, which we know is very, very old in evolution - we can find evidence for it in nonhuman species - the brain processes it at a faster speed. Compassion for mental pain took many seconds longer.
- Pain
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- Nov 07, 2020
Imagine, for example, birds. When they look out at the world, they have a sense that they are alive. If they are in pain, they can do something about it. If they have hunger or thirst, they can satisfy that. It's this basic feeling that there is life ticking away inside of you.
- Life
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- Nov 07, 2020
The problem that we, as living organisms, face - and not we only, humans, but any living organism faces - is the management of life.
- Personality
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- Nov 07, 2020
You still have only one self and one identity. However, self, identity and personality are not things, they are not objects, and they certainly are not rigid. Instead, they are biological processes built within the brain from numerous interactive components, step by step, over a period of time.
- Others
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- Nov 07, 2020
Of necessity, the autobiographical self is not just about one individual but about all the others that an individual interacts with. Of necessity, it incorporates the culture in which the interactions took place.
- More
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- Nov 07, 2020
Some of us, for better or worse, develop very stable, consistent, and largely predictable machineries of self. But in others, the self machinery is more flexible and more open to unexpected turns.
- Circumstances
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- Nov 07, 2020
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 also had major impairments in their ability to make decisions.
- Brain
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- Nov 07, 2020
When we talk about emotion, we really talk about a collection of behaviors that are produced by the brain. You can look at a person in the throes of an emotion and observe changes in the face, in the body posture, in the coloration of the skin and so on.
- Heart
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- Nov 07, 2020
When you experience the emotion of sadness, there will be changes in facial expression, and your body will be closed in, withdrawn. There are also changes in your heart, your guts: they slow down. And there are hormonal changes.
- Emotions
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- Nov 07, 2020
Rather than being a luxury, emotions are a very intelligent way of driving an organism toward certain outcomes.
- Pencil
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- Nov 07, 2020