We can be more or less conscious when you create grades of focus on a subject that is flowing in our stream of consciousness.

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.

A mind is so closely shaped by the body and destined to serve it that only one mind could possibly arise in it. No body, never mind.

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 may smile and the dog may wag the tail, but in essence, we have a set program and those programs are similar across individuals in the species.

The mechanism of primary emotions does not describe the full range of emotional behaviors. They are, to be sure, the basic mechanism. However, I believe that in terms of an individual's development they are followed by mechanisms of secondary emotions, which occur once we begin experiencing feelings and forming systematic connections between categories of objects and situations, on the one hand, and primary emotions, on the other.

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.