How Can You Have This

The Autobiographical Self Has Prompted Extended Memory, Reasoning, Imagination, Creativity And Language. And Out Of That Came The Instruments Of Culture - Religions, Justice, Trade, The Arts, Science, Technology.

The Problem That We, As Living Organisms, Face - And Not We Only, Humans, But Any Living Organism Faces - Is The Management Of Life.

It's Very Interesting To Think About The Distinction With Mind, Which I Just Made In Very General Terms, But It Can Be Made More Profound When We Think That There Are Many Species, Many Creatures On Earth That Are Very Likely To Have A Mind, But Are Very Unlikely To Have A Consciousness In The Sense That You And I Have.

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.

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 Complete Sense Of Our Own Existence, Yet We Hardly Ever Pause To Consider This Wonder.