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“There are ways in which you can make that distinction objective to a certain degree. For example, by looking at responses that could be generated in the brain to exactly the same stimulus and there could be differences there.”

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Antonio Damasio

Antonio Damasio is a renowned neuroscientist and cognitive scientist, born on February 25, 1944. He has made significant contributions to the study of the relationship between emotion, consciousness, and brain function. more

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“We remove ourselves from the experience itself to a surrogate of the experience, which is whatever measure you take from the brain, be it the electroencephalogram or magnet encephalography or say functional magnetic resonance. So it's pretty tough to make those comparisons.”

Brain Tough Comparison Remove Magnet Resonance Magnetic Surrogates

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“Although when you look at people that say, from the same culture, roughly the same age, and not very difference intelligence, and you make a lot of detailed questions about the experiences of say colors, situations, and so on, you'll get very similar answers.”

People Looks Age Culture Differences Answers Situation Color

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“I think it's reasonable to say that even thought, in all likelihood, we have slightly different experiences of reality, they are similar enough to us not to clash. In other words, I'm not, it's very unlikely, in fact, let's say impossible, for you to say the situation in which you and I are in right now, relative to the machinery that is capturing this.”

Thinking Different Enough Facts Reality Situation Impossible Right Now Reasonable Relative Machinery Unlikely Clash Likelihood Different Experiences

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“We're seeing it the same way, we're hearing the same way, we have the same conception of the situation. And so, for all purposes, we are operating with a very similar perception.”

Way Purpose Situation Seeing Perception Hearing Conception

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“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.”

Persons Problem Fall Focus Materials Sole

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“People who are great thinkers, in science or in art, people who are great performers, have to have that kind of capacity. Without that kind of capacity, it's extremely difficult to manage a high level of performance because you're going to get a lot of extraneous material chipping away at the finery of your thinking or the finery of your motor execution.”

People Thinking Kind Art Difficult Levels Materials Capacity Performances Manage Performers Thinker Execution Motor High Level Great Thinkers Chipping Away

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“We can be more or less conscious when you create grades of focus on a subject that is flowing in our stream of consciousness.”

Consciousness Focus Subjects Conscious Streams Grades Stream Of Consciousness

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“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.”

Firsts Stories Certain Born Our Lives Events Walking Aspect Structure Sequence Sequencing Sequence Of Events

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“There's something that intervenes and is very important which has to do with value. Value in the true biological sense, which is that contrary to what many people seem to think, taking it at face value - sorry for the pun - we do not give the same amount of emotional significance to every event.”

People Thinking Giving Important Seems Faces Values Events Emotional Amount Sorry Contrary Significance Pun Face Value

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“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.”

Reason Our Lives Effects Particular Importance Response Enormous Variety Dominant Biographies

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