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| Introduction | |
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| Stepping into the Light | |
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| Stepping into the Light | |
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| Absent without Leave | |
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| The Problem of Consciousness | |
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| Approaching Consciousness | |
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| Mind, Behavior, and Brain | |
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| Reflecting on the Neurological and Neuropsychological Evidence | |
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| A Search for Self | |
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| Why We Need Consciousness | |
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| The Beginning of Consciousness | |
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| Coping with Mystery | |
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| Hide and Seek | |
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| Feeling and Knowing | |
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| Emotion and Feeling | |
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| Once More with Emotion | |
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| A Historical Aside | |
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| The Brain Knows More than the Conscious Mind Reveals | |
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| An Aside on Controlling the Uncontrollable | |
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| What Are Emotions? | |
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| The Biological Function of Emotions | |
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| Inducing Emotions | |
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| The Mechanics of Emotion | |
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| Have No Fear | |
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| How It All Works | |
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| Sharpening the Definition of Emotion: An Aside | |
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| The Substrate for the Representation of Emotions and Feelings | |
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| Core Consciousness | |
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| Studying Consciousness | |
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| The Music of Behavior and the External Manifestations of Consciousness | |
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| Wakefulness | |
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| Attention and Purposeful Behavior | |
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| Studying Consciousness from Its Absence | |
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| The Hint Half Hinted | |
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| Language and Consciousness | |
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| If You Had That Much Money: A Comment on Language and Consciousness | |
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| Memory and Consciousness | |
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| Nothing Comes to Mind | |
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| David's Consciousness | |
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| Rounding Up Some Facts | |
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| The Hint Half Hinted | |
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| A Biology for Knowing | |
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| The Organism and the Object | |
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| The Body behind the Self | |
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| The Need for Stability | |
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| The Internal Milieu as a Precursor to the Self | |
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| More on the Internal Milieu | |
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| Under the Microscope | |
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| Managing Life | |
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| Why Are Body Representations Well Suited to Signify Stability? | |
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| One Body One Person: The Roots of the Singularity of Self | |
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| The Organism's Invariance and the Impermanence of Permanence | |
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| The Roots of Individual Perspective, Ownership, and Agency | |
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| The Mapping of Body Signals | |
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| The Neural Self | |
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| Brain Structures Required to Implement the Proto-Self | |
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| Brain Structures Which Are Not Required to Implement the Proto-Self | |
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| Something-to-Be-Known | |
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| A Note on the Disorders of the Something-to-Be-Known | |
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| It Must Be Me because I'm Here | |
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| The Making of Core Consciousness | |
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| The Birth of Consciousness | |
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| You Are the Music while the Music Lasts: The Transient Core Self | |
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| Beyond the Transient Core Self: The Autobiographical Self | |
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| Assembling Core Consciousness | |
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| The Need for a Second-Order Neural Pattern | |
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| Where Is the Second-Order Neural Pattern? | |
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| The Images of Knowing | |
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| Consciousness from Perceived Objects and Recalled Past Perceptions | |
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| The Nonverbal Nature of Core Consciousness | |
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| The Naturalness of Wordless Storytelling | |
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| One Last Word on the Homunculus | |
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| Taking Stock | |
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| Extended Consciousness | |
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| Extended Consciousness | |
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| Assessing Extended Consciousness | |
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| Disorders of Extended Consciousness | |
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| Transient Global Amnesia | |
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| Anosognosia | |
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| Asomatognosia | |
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| The Transient and the Permanent | |
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| The Neuroanatomical Basis for the Autobiographical Self | |
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| The Autobiographical Self, Identity, and Personhood | |
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| The Autobiographical Self and the Unconscious | |
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| Nature's Self and Culture's Self | |
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| Beyond Extended Consciousness | |
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| The Neurology of Consciousness | |
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| Assessing Statement Number One: Evidence for a Role of Proto-Self Structures in Consciousness | |
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| It Looks like Sleep | |
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| It May Look like Coma | |
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| Reflecting on the Neural Correlates of Coma and Persistent Vegetative State | |
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| The Reticular Formation Then and Now | |
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| A Quiet Mystery | |
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| The Anatomy of the Proto-Self in the Perspective of Classical Experiments | |
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| Reconciling Facts and Interpretations | |
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| Assessing Statement Number Two: Evidence for a Role of Second-Order Structures in Consciousness | |
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| Assessing the Other Statements | |
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| Conclusions | |
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| A Remarkable Overlap of Functions | |
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| A New Context for Reticular Formation and Thalamus | |
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| A Counterintuitive Fact? | |
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| Bound to Know | |
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| Feeling Feelings | |
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| Feeling Feelings | |
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| The Substrate for Feelings of Emotion | |
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| From Emotion to Conscious Feeling | |
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| What Are Feelings For? | |
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| A Note on Background Feelings | |
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| The Obligate Body-Relatedness of Feeling | |
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| Emotion and Feeling after Spinal Cord Transection | |
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| Evidence from the Section of Vagus Nerve and Spinal Cord | |
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| Lessons from Locked-In Syndrome | |
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| Learning from Emotion with the Help of the Body | |
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| Using Consciousness | |
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| Unconsciousness and Its Limits | |
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| The Merits of Consciousness | |
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| Will We Ever Experience the Consciousness of Another? | |
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| Where Does Consciousness Rank in the Grand Scheme? | |
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| Under the Light | |
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| By Feeling and by Light | |
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| Under the Light | |
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| Notes on Mind and Brain | |
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| A Glossary of Sorts | |
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| What Is an Image and What Is a Neural Pattern? | |
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| Images Are Not Just Visual | |
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| Constructing Images | |
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| Representations | |
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| Maps | |
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| Mysteries and Gaps of Knowledge in the Making of Images | |
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| New Terms | |
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| Some Pointers on the Anatomy of the Nervous System | |
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| The Brain Systems behind the Mind | |
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| Endnotes | |
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| Acknowledgments | |
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| Index | |
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| About the Author | |