ALPHABETICAL BRAIN™ VOCABULARY HUMANIST FAMILY BRAIN STUDY QUOTATIONS ABOUT CONSCIOUSNESS FROM THE BOOK = THE HUMAN BRAIN BOOK July 6, 2019 BOOK PUBLICATION DATA [4] THE HUMAN BRAIN BOOK: An illustrated guide to its structure, function, and disorders by Rita Carter. Dorling Kindersley Limited, 2009 1st ed. and 2014 2nd ed. (264 pages) QUOTATIONS ABOUT CONSCIOUSNESS Note = See the Index in the 2014 rev. ed. on page 257] "Consciousness is essential: without consciousness, life would have no meaning." (page 176) "Consciousness is like nothing else. A thought, feeling, or idea seems to be a different kind of thing from the physical objects that make up the rest of the universe." (page 176) "According to the materialist theory, consciousness is part of the material universe. It is identical to the brain activity that correlates with it." (page 176) "Consciousness developed when cognitive mechanisms evolved, but only as a result of them, rather than for any purpose of its own." (page 176) "There are types and levels of consciousness. Consciousness has different modes, such as emotions, sensations, thoughts, and perceptions, which are all experienced at different levels of neural activity, focus, and concentration." (page 177) "The 'level of neural activity' determines the intensity of consciousness." (page 177) "The direction of focus can be towards the outside world or the inner world [such as thinking about thinking = metathinking]" (page 177) "Concentration can be loosely targeted, involving a range of objects or fixed, involving just one particular aspect." (page 177) "Consciousness can also be separated into three types of awareness: (1) Awareness in the moment, where the brain registers and reacts to moment-by-moment events but does not encode them in memory; (2) Conscious awareness, where events are registered and encoded in memory; and (3) Self-consciousness, where events are registered and remembered as a person is conscious of doing them." (page 177) "Most conscious thinking is expressed or formulated (couched) in language." (page 177) "Words function as symbolic 'handles' that are used to grasp the objects that they represent. However, about 25 percent of thoughts are experienced as sensations or perceptions (without being expressed in words)." (page 177) instantly return to: LIST OF BOOKS WITH QUOTES ABOUT CONSCIOUSNESS or instantly return to: LIST OF BOOKS WITH CITATIONS ABOUT CONSCIOUSNESS or instantly return to: DETAILS ABOUT YOUR HUMAN CONSCIOUSNESS or instantly return to: WEBSITE INDEX produced by Infinite Interactive Ideas™