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.

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.

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.

We are not thinking machines that feel; rather, we are feeling machines that think.

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

Consciousness, much like our feelings, is based on a representation of the body and how it changes when reacting to certain stimuli. Self-image would be unthinkable without this representation.

There is a sequence of events in our lives and so there's a temporal aspect to our experience that brings by itself, sense into the story. In other words, you were not walking before you were born and you were not doing X and Y before you did something else first. So there's a sequencing of events that imposes a certain structure to the story.