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“We all woke up this morning and we had with it the amazing return of our conscious mind. We recovered minds with a complete sense of self and a complete sense of our own existence — yet we hardly ever pause to consider this wonder.”
— Antonio DamasioAntonio Damasio: The quest to understand consciousness
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“A conscious mind is a mind with a self in it.”
— Antonio DamasioAntonio Damasio: The quest to understand consciousness
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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 without consciousness, he would have no access to true happiness or even the possibility of transcendence.”
— Antonio DamasioAntonio Damasio: The quest to understand consciousness
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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 lived past and the anticipated future.”
— Antonio DamasioAntonio Damasio: The quest to understand consciousness
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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?”
— Antonio DamasioAntonio Damasio: The quest to understand consciousness
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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 — religions, justice, trade, the arts, science, technology.”
— Antonio DamasioAntonio Damasio: The quest to understand consciousness
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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 present in our minds right now.”
— Antonio DamasioAntonio Damasio: The quest to understand consciousness
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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 of your own existence.”
— Antonio DamasioAntonio Damasio: The quest to understand consciousness
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