We may express them [emotions] physically slightly differently, and it's of course graded depending on the circumstance, but the essence of the process is going to be the same, unless one of us is not quite well put together and is missing something, otherwise it's going to be the same.

The self is a perpetually recreated neurobiological state.

What happens [in a coma] is that you lose the grounding of the self, you no longer have access to any feeling of your own existence.

Emotions are enmeshed in the neural networks of reason.

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'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.

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