ALPHABETICAL BRAIN™ VOCABULARY QUOTATIONS FROM THE BOOK BOOK PUBLICATION DATA [4] THE HUMAN BRAIN BOOK: An illustrated guide to its structure, function, and disorders by Rita Carter. Dorling Kindersley Limited, 2009 and revised in 2014 (264 pages) [See 2014 Index, page 257] QUOTES FROM THE BOOK "Consciousness is essential -- without consciousness, life would have no meaning." (page 176) "Consciousness is like nothing else. A thought, feeling, or idea seems to be a different kind of thing from the physical objects that make up the rest of the universe." (page 176) "According to the materialist theory, consciousness is part of the material universe. It is identical to the brain activity that correlates with it." (page 176) Consciousness developed when cognitive mechanisms evolved, but only as a result of them, rather than for any purpose of its own." (page 176) "There are types and levels of consciousness. Consciousness has different modes, such as emotions, sensations, thoughts, and perceptions, which are all experienced at different levels of neural activity, focus, and concentration." (page 177) "The 'level of neural activity' determines the intensity of consciousness." (page 177) "The direction of focus can be towards the outside world or the inner world (such as thinking about thoughts)." (page 177) "Concentration can be loosely targeted, involving a range of objects or fixed, involving just one particular aspect." (page 177) "Consciousness can also be separated into three types of awareness: (1) Awareness in the moment, where the brain registers and reacts to moment-by-moment events but does not encode them in memory; (2) Conscious awareness, where events are registered and encoded in memory; and (3) Self-consciousness, where events are registered and remembered as a person is conscious of doing them." (page 177) "Most conscious thinking is expressed or formulated (couched) in language." (page 177) "Words function as symbolic 'handles' that are used to grasp the objects that they represent. However, about 25 percent of thoughts are experienced as sensations or perceptions (without being expressed in words)." (page 177) INSTANTLY RETURN TO: FACT FINDER LIST OF QUOTES ABOUT CONSCIOUSNESS #1 OR RETURN TO: FACT FINDER LIST OF BOOKS ABOUT CONSCIOUSNESS #1 OR RETURN TO: DETAILS ABOUT CONSCIOUSNESS #1 Or return to: ALPHABETICAL BRAIN™ VOCABULARY INDEX