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 Dinesh
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The distinctive feature of brains such as the one we own is their uncanny ability to create maps. Mapping is essential for sophisticated management, mapping and the life management going hand in hand. We the brain makes maps, it informs itself. The information contained in the maps can be used nonconsciously to guide motor behavior efficaciously, a most desirable consequence considering that survival depends on taking the right action. But when brains make maps, they are also creating images, the main currency of our minds. Ultimately consciousness allows us to experience maps as images, to manipulate those images, and to apply reasoning to them. ~ Page 95

SELF COMES TO MIND
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 Dinesh
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* Brain activity is aimed primarily as assisting with the regulation of the organism's life processes both by coordinating internal body-proper operations, and by coordinating the interactions between the organism as a whole and the physical and social aspects of the environment.

* That brain activity is aimed primarily at survival with well-being; a brain equipped for such a primary aim can engage in anything else secondarily from writing poetry to designing spaceships. ~ Page 194

Looking for Spinoza
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 Dinesh
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Although in humans the brain is the seat of reason, the ‘lower’ (in the evolutionary sense) function of perception or understanding carries on in the same autonomous, unselfconscious way as it does in animals, or for that matter as do the functions of our other bodily organs. This point, so difficult to grasp in philosophical terms, is simple when put in physical terms. However keenly and long we concentrate, there is no way in which we can raise to the level of conscious awareness the activity of, say, our hair is growing, or our lymph glands in manufacturing blood corpuscles, or out pylorus muscles in controlling the flow of nourishment from our stomachs into our small intestines. Not only do we not have to make the slightest effort in order that our bodily parts should perform any of these amazing functions: the functions go on whether we live it or not -- continuous, automatic, involuntary, and above all inaccessible to our conscious awareness. Most of us, not having studied physiology, do not even know what most of them are. . . . . .We have the end-product of perception, but the process itself is hermetically sealed off from introspection.. . . . Page 100/101

THE PHILOSOPHY OF SCHOPENHAUER
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