A Conscious Mind Is A Mind With

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.

Imagine, For Example, Birds. When They Look Out At The World, They Have A Sense That They Are Alive. If They Are In Pain, They Can Do Something About It. If They Have Hunger Or Thirst, They Can Satisfy That. It's This Basic Feeling That There Is Life Ticking Away Inside Of You.

I Got Interested In The Emotions After Studying Patients Who Had Lost The Ability To Emote And Feel Under Certain Circumstances. Many Of Those Patients Also Had Major Impairments In Their Ability To Make Decisions.

There's Something That Intervenes And Is Very Important Which Has To Do With Value. Value In The True Biological Sense, Which Is That Contrary To What Many People Seem To Think, Taking It At Face Value - Sorry For The Pun - We Do Not Give The Same Amount Of Emotional Significance To Every Event.

So, You Can Define Emotions Very Simply As The Process Of Perceiving What Is Going On In The Organs When You Are In The Throws Of An Emotion, And That Is Achieved By A Collection Of Structures, Some Of Which Are In The Brain Stem, And Some Of Which Are In The Cerebral Cortex, Namely The Insular Cortex, Which I Like To Mention Not Because I Think It's The Most Important, It's Not.