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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.

You Know, Mind Allows Us To Portray In Different Sensory Modalities, Visual, Auditory, Olfactory, You Name It, What We Are Like And What The World Is Like. But This Very, Very Important Quality Of Subjectivity, This Quality That Allows Us To Take A Distant View And Say, "i Am Here, I Exist, I Have A Life And There Are Things Around Me That Refer To Me." That Me-ness, M-e-hyphen, That Is What Really Constitutes Consciousness.

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.

There Are Things In Our Lives That Take Up An Enormous Importance And That Become Very Dominant Effects In Our Biography. And That Comes Out Of A Variety Of Reasons, But Fundamentally Comes Out Of How That Particular Experience Connects With Your Effective Systems Of Response.

I Continue To Be Fascinated By The Fact That Feelings Are Not Just The Shady Side Of Reason But That They Help Us To Reach Decisions As Well.