ALPHABETICAL BRAIN™ VOCABULARY QUOTES ABOUT CONSCIOUSNESS #1 BOOK SOURCE: [7] OWNER'S MANUAL FOR THE BRAIN: The ultimate guide to peak mental performance at all ages by Pierce J. Howard. William Morrow/HarperCollins, 2006, 2014 4th edition. QUOTES ABOUT CONSCIOUSNESS #1: "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." 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 Alllan Hobson (1994) "Consciousness involves three primary variables that underlie the many kinds of conscious states: source, mode, and level of activation." (page 914) INSTANTLY RETURN TO: FACT FINDER List of Quotes about CONSCIOUSNESS #1 OR GO TO: FACT FINDER List of Books about CONSCIOUSNESS #1 OR RETURN TO: Details about CONSCIOUSNESS #1 OR RETURN TO: List of 15 Free BRAIN FLASH CARDS