A Conscious Mind Is A Mind With

In 'self Comes To Mind' I Pay A Lot Of Attention To Simple Creatures Without Brains Or Minds, Because Those 'cartooned Abstractions Of Who We Are' Operate On Precisely The Same Principles That We Do.

I Think It's Possible To A Certain Extent To Make Those Comparisons. The Problem Is The Detail With Which The Comparison Can Be Made. Of Course, The First Place To Make Such A Comparison Would Be To Ask For A Testimony From Different People And Have People Report On What They Experience.

But Whether We Want To Do It Because We Want To Have People To Have A Different Idea Of Who We Are Or Not, We Do It Naturally. So The Way We Construct Our Narrative Is Different From The Way We Constructed It A Year Ago. The Difference Is Maybe Very Small Or It May Be Huge.

We Do Not Merely Perceive Objects And Hold Thoughts In Our Minds: All Our Perceptions And Thought Processes Are Felt. All Have A Distinctive Component That Announces An Unequivocal Link Between Images And The Existence Of Life In Our Organism.

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.