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If Something Produces An Undue Amount Of Pleasure Or Undue Amount Of Displeasure, It's Going To Be Judged Differently And It's Going To Be Introduced In Your Narrative With A Different Size, With A Different Development. So That Is The Next Element To Superimpose On The Sequencing Element. And In Fact, That Element Is So Powerful That Very Often It Can Trump The Sequencing Event, That The Sequencing Aspect.

Emotion Operates, Very Often When You Think About How You React To The World, You Know, Something Is Happening To You, You're Simply Going Along And You're Being Confronted By Different Things, Not Necessarily Very Important Or Significance For Your Ultimate Life, But You Are Constantly Reacting To The World.

Consciousness Permits Us To Develop The Instruments Of Culture - Morality And Justice, Religion, Art, Economics And Politics, Science And Technology. Those Instruments Allow Us Some Measure Of Freedom In The Confrontation With Nature.

In 'self Comes To Mind' I Pay A Lot Of Attention To Simple Creatures Without Brains Or Minds, Because Those 'cartooned Abstractions Of Who We Are' Operate On Precisely The Same Principles That We Do.

Something May Have Happened Before, And Yet This Thing That Happened Just After May Be So Important That You Don't Even Know About The Thing That Happened Before And When You Tell Your Story To Yourself, Or To Someone Else, It's Going To Be Told Not On The Basis Necessarily Of The Time Course, But Rather On The Basis Of How It Was Valued By You.