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 compl….

In the heart of consciousness is subjectivity, this sense of having a self that observes one's own organism and the world around that organism. That ….

There is a sequence of events in our lives and so there's a temporal aspect to our experience that brings by itself, sense into the story. In other w….

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

When you deal with something like compassion for physical pain, which we know is very, very old in evolution - we can find evidence for it in nonhuma….

I got interested in the emotions after studying patients who had lost the ability to emote and feel under certain circumstances. Many of those patien….

The self is a perpetually recreated neurobiological state..

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

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

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

Emotion consists of a very well orchestrated set of alterations in the body that has, as a general purpose, making life more survivable by taking car….

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

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..

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..

There's that effect that is very physical, very down there at the synaptic level, which really means microscopic cellular level, but also molecular l….

You can be highly concentrated on a person, on a problem, and be so good at excluding all other material that that becomes not just the focus of your….

There are things in our lives that take up an enormous importance and that become very dominant effects in our biography. And that comes out of a var….

We do not merely perceive objects and hold thoughts in our minds: all our perceptions and thought processes are felt. All have a distinctive componen….

If you have just an emotion, you would not necessarily feel it. To feel an emotion, you need to represent in the brain in structures that are actuall….

More may have been learned about the brain and the mind in the 1990s - the so-called decade of the brain - than during the entire previous history of….

I believe that it is made out of the same cloth of mind, but it is an add-on, it was something that was specialized to create what we call the self. ….