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People Who Are Great Thinkers, In Science Or In Art, People Who Are Great Performers, Have To Have That Kind Of Capacity. Without That Kind Of Capacity, It's Extremely Difficult To Manage A High Level Of Performance Because You're Going To Get A Lot Of Extraneous Material Chipping Away At The Finery Of Your Thinking Or The Finery Of Your Motor Execution.

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

We Can Be More Or Less Conscious When You Create Grades Of Focus On A Subject That Is Flowing In Our Stream Of Consciousness.

More May Have Been Learned About The Brain And The Mind In The 1990s - The So-called Decade Of The Brain - Than During The Entire Previous History Of Psychology And Neuroscience.

How Can You Have This Reference Point, This Stability, That Is Required To Maintain The Continuity Of Selves Day After Day?