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In Part 1, leading scientist, Antonio Damasio says he had been waiting until he had enough new information on the neurology of conscious--to start over. He is no longer satisfied with some of what he has said in the past.  His newest book is Self comes to Mind: Constructing the Conscious Brain.   He has a nice You Tube series out on a few aspects.

 

Here is the link to Part 3: What is this thing called Mind? which is quite a bit more meaty in its entirety.  My favorite snippet.

 

"Practically everything that we do, if we are really thinking beings and if we live some kind of life examined, everything we do is filtered through what we have been, what has happened to us--sometimes in the distant past, and even unconsciously sometimes in the few close past. And it is also filtered by what we want to do.  So all that complexity of past and future contributes to this self, which is in fact, as far as I can see, uniquely human."

 

Note the "which is in fact, as far as I can see, uniquely human."

 

The entire series is worthy perusing.