ALPHABETICAL BRAIN™ VOCABULARY QUOTES ABOUT CONSCIOUSNESS #1 April 20, 2019 BOOK SOURCE = [1] THE RAVENOUS BRAIN: How the new science of consciousness explains our insatiable search for meaning by Daniel Bor. Basic Books, 2012 (326 pages) [Note = see Index pages 312-314; 73 references and 8 cross-references] QUOTES = "The science of consciousness is coming of age. It can explain the origin and purpose of awareness, its mental features and neural mechanisms, as well as its intense fragility. From this picture, we can see the seeds of awareness in the history of life on earth." (page 265) "All ancient cultures blindly clung to survival by capturing and combining useful ideas about the environment -- but this limited learning happened randomly, awkwardly, via DNA changes and the rhythmic fall of generations." (page 265) "Consciousness first arose out of this evolutionary endeavor via a specialist information-processing organ, a neural computer (the human brain) capable of acquiring accurate concepts and deep strategies far more rapidly and flexibly than ever before." (page 265) "Some evolutionary branches created complex brains, which were optimized to build pyramids of knowledge out of simpler ideas cemented together. This critical skill in combining mental objects (thinking and memorizing) to generate increasingly meaningful, useful structures of thought is both the essence of consciousness and its overriding purpose." (page 265) "Humans have a unique place in the world. We have an exceptionally complex brain, whose central wired core, in the form of the prefrontal parietal network, is greatly expanded even compared to our nearest primate relatives." (page 265) "We can process and combine information like no other species, and consequently we experience the world in exceptionally rich, varied ways." (page 265) "Our consciousness allows us to unlock nature's secrets." (page 265) INSTANTLY RETURN TO: List of Quotes about CONSCIOUSNESS #1 OR GO TO: FACT FINDER List of Book Sources about CONSCIOUSNESS #1 OR RETURN TO: Details about CONSCIOUSNESS #1 OR RETURN TO: List of 15 Free BRAIN FLASH CARDS