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“The modern reader (or viewer, or listener: let's include everybody) is perilously overloaded. His attention is, to use the latest lingo,'targeted' by powerful forces? Our consciousness is a staging area, a field of operations for all kinds of enterprises, which make free use of it.”

Kind Use Force Powerful Attention Consciousness Modern Fields Reader Areas All Kinds Operations Enterprise Listeners Viewers Staging Overloaded

Author:Saul Bellow

“We have said that consciousness is an operation rather than a thing, a repository, or a function. It operates by way of analogy, by way of constructing an analog space with an analog 'I' that can observe that space, and move metaphorically in it. It operates on any reactivity, excerpts relevant aspects, narratizes and conciliates them together in a metaphorical space where such meanings can be manipulated like things in space.”

Way Said Together Moving Space Consciousness Aspect Function Operations Relevant Analogies Metaphorical Analog Reactivity

Book:The Origin of Consciousness in the Breakdown of the Bicameral Mind

Source: The Origin of Consciousness in the Breakdown of the Bicameral Mind

“Pattern recognition and association make up the core of our thought. These activities involve millions of operations carried out in parallel, outside the field of our consciousness. If AI appeared to hit a brick wall after a few quick victories, it did so owing to its inability to emulate these processes.”

“The operation of consciousness has created the 'apparition' called 'me'.”

Consciousness Operations Apparitions

Author:Mooji

“While we tend to conceive of the operations of the mind as unified and transparent, they're actually chaotic and opaque. There's no invisible boss in the brain, no central meaner, no unitary self in command of our activities and utterances. There's no internal spectator of a Cartesian theater in our heads to applaud the march of consciousness across its stage.”

Mind Self Brain Consciousness Stage Activity Theater Invisible Command Operations Internals March Boss Spectators Transparent Chaotic Unified Utterance Opaque

Author:Daniel Dennett

“I feel that the change, the mutation in consciousness, will occur spontaneously once certain pressures now in operation are removed. I feel that the principal instrument of monopoly and control that prevents expansion of consciousness is the word lines controlling thought, feeling and apparent sensory impressions of the human host.”

Feels Humans Feelings Certain Lines Consciousness Pressure Instruments Impression Operations Host Principal Expansion Monopoly Sensory Mutation

Author:William S. Burroughs

“Consciousness is the smallest player in the operations of the brain.”

Brain Consciousness Player Operations Smallest

Book:Incognito: The Secret Lives of The Brain

Source: Incognito: The Secret Lives of The Brain