ALPHABETICAL BRAIN™ VOCABULARY HUMANIST FAMILY BRAIN STUDY QUOTES ABOUT CONSCIOUSNESS FROM BOOK = OWNER'S MANUAL FOR THE BRAIN December 22, 2018 BOOK PUBLISHING DATA 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) QUOTES ABOUT CONSCIOUSNESS "To begin: What is consciousness?" (page 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." (page 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." (page 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." (page 914) According to Alan Hobson (1994) "Consciousness involves three primary variables that underlie the many kinds of conscious states: source, mode, level of activation." (page 914) instantly return to: LIST OF BOOKS WITH QUOTES ABOUT CONSCIOUSNESS or return to: BOOKS ABOUT CONSCIOUSNESS or return to: DETAILS ABOUT YOUR ENLIGHTENED CONSCIOUSNESS or return to: ALPHABETICAL BRAIN™ VOCABULARY INDEX produced by Infinite Interactive Ideas™