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I cannot listen to Beethoven or Mahler or Chopin or Bach when I write because those composers require you stop what you are doing and listen.

To me, body and mind are different aspects of specific biological processes.

I continue to be fascinated by the fact that feelings are not just the shady side of reason but that they help us to reach decisions as well.

Rather than being a luxury, emotions are a very intelligent way of driving an organism toward certain outcomes.

A mind is so closely shaped by the body and destined to serve it that only one mind could possibly arise in it. No body, never mind.

There is no such thing as a disembodied mind. The mind is implanted in the brain, and the brain is implanted in the body.

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.

The problem that we, as living organisms, face - and not we only, humans, but any living organism faces - is the management of life.

Consciousness begins when brains acquire the power, the simple power I must add, of telling a story.

How can you have this reference point, this stability, that is required to maintain the continuity of selves day after day?

We can be more or less conscious when you create grades of focus on a subject that is flowing in our stream of consciousness.

The self is a perpetually recreated neurobiological state.

A conscious mind is a mind with a self in it.

Emotions are enmeshed in the neural networks of reason.

Writing long hand is the last refuge. One needs the time it takes to put pencil to paper and let it run along the ruled line.

We are not thinking machines that feel; rather, we are feeling machines that think.

Interestingly enough, not all feelings result from the body's reaction to external stimuli. Sometimes changes are purely simulated in the brain maps.

We may smile and the dog may wag the tail, but in essence, we have a set program and those programs are similar across individuals in the species.