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Consciousness, Much Like Our Feelings, Is Based On A Representation Of The Body And How It Changes When Reacting To Certain Stimuli. Self-image Would Be Unthinkable Without This Representation.

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.

Some Of Us, For Better Or Worse, Develop Very Stable, Consistent, And Largely Predictable Machineries Of Self. But In Others, The Self Machinery Is More Flexible And More Open To Unexpected Turns.

There Is A Sequence Of Events In Our Lives And So There's A Temporal Aspect To Our Experience That Brings By Itself, Sense Into The Story. In Other Words, You Were Not Walking Before You Were Born And You Were Not Doing X And Y Before You Did Something Else First. So There's A Sequencing Of Events That Imposes A Certain Structure To The Story.

The Emotion Is The Execution Of A Very Complex Program Of Actions. Some Actions That Are Actually Movements, Like Movement That You Can Do, Change Your Face For Example, In Fear, Or Movements That Are Internal, That Happen In Your Heart Or In Your Gut, And Movements That Are Actually Not Muscular Movements, But Rather, Releases Of Molecules.