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 experience, but practically the sole content of your experience, everything else falling by the wayside.

A conscious mind is a mind with a self in it.

If I use the word consciousness, in our lab, in our institute, what we mean is the special quality of mind, the special features that exist in the mind, that permit us to know, for example, that we, ourselves, exist, and that things exist around us.

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

Emotions are enmeshed in the neural networks of reason.

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

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.