ALPHABETICAL BRAIN™ VOCABULARY QUOTATIONS ABOUT CONSCIOUSNESS FROM THE BOOK June 21, 2019 OWNER'S MANUAL FOR THE BRAIN: The Ultimate Guide to Peak Mental Performance at All Ages by Pierce J. Howard. William Morrow/HarperCollins, 2014 4th ed. (1047 pages) QUOTATIONS ABOUT CONSCIOUSNESS "To begin: What is consciousness?" (914) Gerald Edelman (1987) elaborated a "theory of neuronal group selection that includes two kinds of consciousness: (1) primary consciousness, involving an awareness of the present, and (2) higher consciousness, involving awareness of the past, projection into the future, and the ability to see patterns in the totality of one's behavior, past, present, and future." (914) LeDoux (2002) described the "neural circuits that form consciousness as being similar to a number of computers, each working independently but each also connected to the others, so that what is happening on one computer can influence what is happening on the others, what the IT world calls parallel processing." (914) Antonio Damasio (1999) wrote both a "dictionary and a proper definition of consciousness: (1) Dictionary definition = An organism's awareness of its own self and surroundings and (2) Proper definition = The feeling of what happens when your being is modified by the acts of apprehending something." (914) According to Alan Hobson (1994) "Consciousness involves three primary variables that underlie the many kinds of conscious states: source, mode, level of activation." (914) instantly return to: QUOTATIONS ABOUT CONSCIOUSNESS or instantly return to: WEBSITE INDEX produced by Infinite Interactive Ideas™