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Awareness can happen in the depths—below the surface of the sensory realm
Which animals are sentient?
youtu.beconsciousness — that ultimate lens of being, which shapes our entire experience of life and makes blue appear blue and gives poems their air of wonder — is not a mental activity confined to the brain but a complex embodied phenomenon governed by the nervous-system activity we call feeling.
Maria Popova • I Feel, Therefore I Am: Neuroscientist Antonio Damasio on Consciousness and How the Feeling-Tone of the Body Underscores the Symphony of the Mind
Perhaps the most concise way to describe this emerging paradigm in science is the realization that consciousness, rather than being an accidental by-product of neurophysiological and biochemical processes in the brain, is an integral component of the universe itself.
Renn Butler • Pathways to Wholeness: Archetypal Astrology and the Transpersonal Journey
The place is alive. Every rock is animate and sentient—but in our worldview this is true of all rocks.
Tyson Yunkaporta • Sand Talk: How Indigenous Thinking Can Save the World
sometimes you catch yourself being exactly who you are.
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