The Self Is A Perpetually Recreated Neurobiological

Consciousness Begins When Brains Acquire The Power, The Simple Power I Must Add, Of Telling A Story.

Rather Than Being A Luxury, Emotions Are A Very Intelligent Way Of Driving An Organism Toward Certain Outcomes.

When You Deal With Something Like Compassion For Physical Pain, Which We Know Is Very, Very Old In Evolution - We Can Find Evidence For It In Nonhuman Species - The Brain Processes It At A Faster Speed. Compassion For Mental Pain Took Many Seconds Longer.

Emotion Is Set In Our Genome And That We All Have With A Certain Programmed Nature That Is Modified By Our Experience So Individually We Have Variations On The Pattern. But In Essence, Your Emotion Of Joy And Mine Are Going To Be Extremely Similar.

The Autobiographical Self Is Built On The Basis Of Past Memories And Memories Of The Plans That We Have Made; It's The Lived Past And The Anticipated Future.