“The study a posteriori of the distribution of consciousness shows it to be exactly such as we might expect in an organ added for the sake of steering a nervous system grown too complex to regulate itself.” ShowsMightConsciousnessStudyComplexesSakeNervousOrgansDistributionNervous SystemSteering Book:The Principles of Psychology Source: The Principles of Psychology
“Our brain and our whole nervous system and our whole body are only created in relation to other people and to the environment. So what we have here is an enormously complex notion of both consciousness and unconsciousness. That's why these models get very difficult, because you can't reduce our subjective and intersubjective experience to neural reductions.” PeopleDifficultBrainConsciousnessEnvironmentRelationNervous Author:Siri Hustvedt