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	Extended consciousness -- Facts, Info, and Encyclopedia article (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-18)
		Extended consciousness is said to arise in the (That part of the central nervous system that includes all the higher nervous centers; enclosed within the skull; continuous with the spinal cord) brain of animals with substantial capacity for (An electronic memory device) memory and (A rational motive for a belief or action) reason.
		Image spaces imply areas where (additional info and facts about sensory) sensory impressions of all types are processed, including the focused awareness of the (additional info and facts about core consciousness) core consciousness.
		Likewise, neural convergence zones are widely distributed in the lobes of the (The layer of unmyelinated neurons (the gray matter) forming the cortex of the cerebrum) cerebral cortex.
	www.absoluteastronomy.com /encyclopedia/e/ex/extended_consciousness.htm (319 words)

	Damasio page (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-18)
		Core consciousness is continuous from the time you wake up in the morning until you again go to sleep.
		Core consciousness is personal to you -- only you have access to the inside of your head (your mind and brain).
		Extended consciousness has core consciousness as a base, but it provides us with awareness”; of the fact that we are alive and acting on the stage of life; that we have had a past we can recall; and that we have a future we can contemplate.
	www.architecture-mind.com /damasio.htm (533 words)

	Mundane Essays
		In it, Damasio presents a compelling case that emotions are key to core consciousness (he views consciousness not as a single state, but a continuum, from core consciousness - the type we percieve in animals - to extended consciousness - required for elaborate reasoning, planning and so on).
		In establishing the relationship between emotions and core consciousness, Damasio's comments made me realize: this is something AI researchers should be exploring.
		Extended consciousness, the type that would likely be necessary for the Turing Test is not likely to be independent of core consciousness.
	muness.blogspot.com /2004/06/emotions-core-consciousness-and-ai.html (301 words)

	JH/5-1/Julie Reiser
		And, although core consciousness is stable, the "core self" it generates continually morphs from one moment to the next as a mapped response to encountered stimuli.
		The autobiographical self depends on systematized memories of situations in which core consciousness was involved in the knowing of the most invariant characteristics of an organism's life--who you were born to, where, when, your likes and dislikes, the way you usually react to a problem or a conflict, your name, and so on.
		Consciousness emerges when this primordial story—the story of an object causally changing the state of the body—can be told using the universal nonverbal vocabulary of body signals.
	www.janushead.org /5-1/reiser.cfm (5426 words)

	Science And Consciousness Review (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-18)
		The term “consciousness” itself is already difficult to define (see SCR)—then add to this notions such as “meta-”, “reflective”, “core”, “extended”, “minimal”, or “recursive” consciousness, and the situation becomes rather desperate.
		I submit that once you reach this ultimate level of consciousness you understand that you stay the same person across time (self-history), that you are the author of your thoughts and actions (self-agency), and that you are distinct from the environment (self-coherence).
		Stuss, D.T., Picton, T.W., and Alexander, M.P. Consciousness, self-awareness and the frontal lobes.
	www.sci-con.org /articles/20040802.html (4567 words)

	RedOrbit NEWS \| Pain Perception As a Model for the Study of Consciousness
		Barresi and Moore suggest a theory of consciousness that distinguishes the intentional or "core" consciousness described by affective theories from the reflective consciousness described by NCC theories (Barresi and Moore 2002).
		Analyses of the two levels of consciousness imply that primitive organisms perceived pain before they perceived themselves, so a study of core consciousness is more appropriately defined by the experience of pain with the associated affective states than by self-perception.
		Extended consciousness is enhanced by memory and language, which allow the creation of conceptual memories and an autobiographical self; however, it is hard to believe that consciousness and the entire human experience jumped into existence from pure mechanics with the evolution of these cognitive abilities.
	www.redorbit.com /modules/news/tools.php?tool=print&id=92256 (8535 words)

	July 2004 - The Neurobiology of Regret - www.ezboard.com
		Core consciousness is independent of language, reasoning and memory, its scope is limited to the here and now, and we share it with most (if not all) other animals.
		Core consciousness is based on the proto self, which is conceived as caused by the perception of external images.
		In Damasio’s view, consciousness is about a relationship between an organism and an object (the external or the internal environment), with the basic format provided by feelings, not rational thought (hence the title of his book, the feeling of what happens).
	p090.ezboard.com /fbooktalkfrm78.showMessage?topicID=35.topic (8998 words)

	PRESENCE-Connect
		As we have just seen, core self and core consciousness have their origins in a mapping of body states and are about two facts: the organism relating to sensory streams and the fact that this relation causes a change in the organism.
		Core consciousness drives the problem solution; the more it is able to integrate the three layers, the more convincing the answer to the problem.
		As already stated, core consciousness is the pivot for judgements that something from the world outside is impacting on the self, on the life of the organism.
	www.informatik.umu.se /~jwworth/Riva-Waterworth.htm (5438 words)

	Books \| Why we should be reasonably emotional
		Extended consciousness can be damaged, without affecting core consciousness, but damage to core consciousness spells disaster for consciousness as a whole.
		Damasio draws two conclusions from this: that factual knowledge is not a prerequisite for core consciousness, and that those regions of David's brain that are damaged cannot be responsible for core consciousness.
		While he acknowledges the work of contemporary philosophers of consciousness, it can be hard, without prior knowledge of this area, to see what their arguments are in relation to his own, and thus to assess how radical his own research has been.
	books.guardian.co.uk /print/0,3858,3950766-99945,00.html (1177 words)

	Psyche 6(8): Review of Antonio Damasio's "The Feeling of What Happens" by Aldo Mosca
		Damasio believes that consciousness comes in degrees, and one of the distinctive features of his account is the proposal to withhold the title of "conscious" altogether from a number of states which are nevertheless "mental" and are often ascribed to consciousness of the first order.
		The reason for the insistence on core consciousness would be that "both emotions and core consciousness require, in part, the same neural substrates, and that strategically placed dysfunction compromises both kinds of processing" (p.
		Other structures responsible for core consciousness are the thalamus and the superior colliculi (a tiny structure near the brain stem, sometimes regarded as the seat of consciousness).
	psyche.cs.monash.edu.au /v6/psyche-6-10-mosca.html (5386 words)

	Amazon.com: The Feeling of What Happens: Body and Emotion in the Making of Consciousness: Books: Antonio Damasio (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-18)
		There are in fact several kinds of consciousness, he says: the proto-self, which exists in the mind's constant monitoring of the body's state, of which we are unaware; a core consciousness that perceives the world 500 milliseconds after the fact; and the extended consciousness of memory, reason and language.
		In fact, he conceives "core consciousness", the unadorned feeling of self, to be a network function including not only the RAS, but the intralaminar thalamic nuclei and cingulate and primary somatosensory cortex.
		But more fundamentally, for him the key to the biology of consciousness is the homeostatic regulation and its fundamental values: reward or punishment, pleasure or pain, attraction or rejection, personal pros or cons and ultimately good (in the sense of 'life') or harm (in the sense of 'death').
	www.amazon.com /exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/0156010755?v=glance (3549 words)

	Culture Watch - Exploring the message behind the media
		Core consciousness gives the foundation of a sense of personal being or of being the owner of the images in the brain.
		Damasio proposes that consciousness is of great benefit to the survival of the conscious organism as it provides a way for the organism to become aware of itself and its environment and so develop non-automatic, novel responses to any environmental challenges to its existence.
		The extended consciousness of normal human experience is said to be produced when the brain generates an autobiographical self by integrating memories of past experiences, learned ideas, beliefs and skills, and hopes for the future into present experience.
	www.damaris.org /content/content.php?type=5&id=72 (1376 words)

	Mind and Brain
		He notes that when consciousness is suspended in patients, then so too is emotional response, suggesting at the very least that they have “common underpinnings”.
		Core consciousness is where ‘feelings’ (with their attendant connection to the emotions) originate and is an absolutely crucial step in the formation of an ‘extended consciousness’.
		Through this concept of core consciousness Damasio introduces ‘self consciousness’ both in a different manner and at a different evolutionary stage of development to Torey.
	www.kinfonet.org /the_link/link_22/mind.asp (1933 words)

	William H. Calvin, NYTimes review of Antonio R. Damasio's The Feeling of What Happens (1999) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-18)
		By WILLIAM H. William H. Calvin is a University of Washington neuroscientist and the author, with Derek Bickerton, of the forthcoming Lingua ex machina: Reconciling Darwin and Chomsky with the Human Brain (MIT Press, 2000).
		Consciousness is more than just being awake, as one of Damasio’s patients illustrates: "Were you to have interrupted the [epileptic] patient at any point during the [absence-automatism] episode, he would have looked at you in utter bewilderment or perhaps with indifference.
		Core consciousness is closely related to such prominent background feelings as excitement, fatigue/energy, wellness/sickness, tension/relaxation, surging/dragging, balance/imbalance, and harmony/discord.
	www.williamcalvin.com /1990s/1999NYTBR.htm (1387 words)

	Inner speech and self-awareness:
		I suggest that “core consciousness” be located right in between consciousness and self-awareness as defined throughout this review.
		“Core consciousness” is somewhat similar to “phenomenal self-acquaintance” (Newen and Vogeley) and the “ecological self” (Neisser).
		For example, primary and minimal consciousness, as well as sensorimotor awareness, all mean consciousness as defined as being awake and focusing attention on the environment.
	www2.mtroyal.ab.ca /~amorin/SCRLevels.htm (4456 words)

	The Feeling of What Happens (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-18)
		Damasio breaks down the concept of consciousness — the relationship of an organism to the objects in its environment — into what he calls "core consciousness" and "extended consciousness." Core consciousness consists of the level of the individual’s alertness in interactions of the here and now.
		By contrast, extended consciousness, the type of awareness we normally attribute to humans, requires both memory of the past and anticipation of the future.
		Although it is clear that David does not possess the type of consciousness of normal individuals, it is also obvious that David should still be considered a conscious being and is quite different from a person experiencing an epileptic automatism.
	hcs.harvard.edu /~husn/BRAIN/vol7-spring2000/damasio.htm (991 words)

	Antonio Damasio: The Feeling of What Happens
		What I found particularly interesting about this notion is that the core consciousness is supposed to continually regenerated in a series of pulses, which seemingly blend together to give a continuous 'stream of consciousnes'.
		You must have a core self in order to acquire an autobiographical self, but the converse is not true; there are cases in which people lose their autobiographical self, temporarily or permanently, while maintaining their core consciousness.
		Because we are conscious creatures, we tend to think that feelings must always be conscious, but Damasio thinks that an organism may "represent in neural and mental patterns" the state that we call a feeling without ever knowing that the feeling is taking place.
	www.accampbell.uklinux.net /bookreviews/r/damasio-2.html (1023 words)

	FEELING OF WHAT HAPPENS (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-18)
		Consciousness in the animal world requires a nervous system sufficiently evolved and complex enough that the organism can hold in its"mind" the image of itself or the "protoself" as it moves through and interacts with the world.
		That is because core consciousness evolved much earlier than extended consciousness and thus is dependent on more ancient brain structures, especially those located within the brain stem and hypothalamus.
		When the extended consciousness of such patients is damaged or diminished, patients have a free-floating "present," but are unable to form new memories or envision the future.
	home.earthlink.net /~denmartin/fwh.html (430 words)

	Center for Science in Society
		She argued that it seemed that Damasio provided two different conceptualizations of the difference between the 'core-consciousness' and the 'extended consciousness' at the beginning (p16) and toward the end of the book (217).
		Damasio's proto-self is situated at the transition between the unconsciousness and the I-function in Paul's model, and Paul's I-function collapses Damasio's core-consciousness and extended consciousness.
		Following Paul's description of his theory of consciousness we spend considerable time discussing the ontological state of memory and its function in theorizing consciousness.
	serendip.brynmawr.edu /local/scisoc/grad/ideaforum/30apr04.html (655 words)

	The Dynamic Core of Consciousness (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-18)
		Instead, they propose an alternative approach which emphasizes that conscious experience is integrated (each conscious scene is unified) as well as highly differentiated (we can experience a large number of different conscious states within a short time span).
		And, in order to sustain conscious experience, the cluster must also be highly differentiated n it must have high values of complexity.
		The complexity of the dynamic core should correlate with the subjectis conscious state.
	www.science-spirit.org /archive_cm_detail.php?new_id=95 (302 words)

	Trafford Publishing: Soul Retrieval: Return to Wholeness
		The Core functioning of the consciousness of the being is with the Core Soul.
		During soul retrieval it becomes conscious that it has been separate and that the desire of the Core Soul is to bring it to union, or reunion.
		The consciousness that you may have the lost soul aspects is prerequisite to having this process be possible without assistance.
	www.trafford.com /robots/03-1990.html (4076 words)

	Histrionics d'Artskool (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-18)
		They foresaw an event that was going to happen in 1972, and they knew that we had to be at the fourth dimensional level of awareness by then in order to survive.
		If we had been prepared for this, that is, consciously prepared, if We were at the Core-consciousness level or higher, we could have just tuned to it and it would have been a beautiful trip.
		But since we had fallen so far in consciousness from the events in Atlantis 16,000 years ago and had not yet moved into Core-consciousness, we certainly were not prepared.
	artcode.org /music/artskool/tribe/history.html (3205 words)

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		The Core of Consciousness is the very essence of the power behind the universe.
		The majority of people are only conscious of experiences which occurred during their lifetimes and they are unable to access the universal process, which created life and continues to evolve life.
		The key is to have a strong desire to remain fully conscious of the process and purpose.
	www.omplace.com /articles/Core_of_Consciousness.html (1857 words)

	Moby 'Lisk
		The fires are still raging as several Core Warlord-class battleships, flanked by an escort plethora of Hydra Missile Frigates, sail past the devastated city.
		The Core Consciousness had spent several nano-seconds in the past attempting to figure out the significance of his name before deciding that it was not worth the effort.)
		We heard that the Core forces were likely going to try to mount an assault against Owen Sound, so we managed to scramble up defenses from all through the Great Lakes to prepare for an attack.
	www.cwal.net /library/index.cgi?1040408184416 (2951 words)

	Encyclopedia Galactica - Co to Cq - Revised 351st Edition (Baseline Friendly Version) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-18)
		Mystics consider that consciousness is primary, and matter and phenomena secondary.
		Of those, pantheists consider consciousness and the fundamental forces of nature the same, whereas Sophics and other religions consider that consciousness is the cause and predecessor of the cosmos
		Dominion corvettes generally mass around 10,000 tonnes (most of that the drive core) and are about 80 meters in length.
	www.orionsarm.com /eg/c/Co-Cq.html (7214 words)

	PSY 362 Physiological Psychology Office/mail: AC-4D06-d (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-18)
		In this course, we will examine cutting-edge theory, research, and methods in the study of human and animal consciousness, its biological and bodily basis, early views about the nature of consciousness, the question of "machine" sentience, philosophical and evolutionary perspectives, and altered states.
		M., and Tononi, G. universe of consciousness: How matter becomes imagination.
		The man who mistook his wife for a hat and other clinical tales.
	www.york.cuny.edu /~seitz/Consciousness.htm (196 words)

	Psyche's Links: 15000++ Links to Esoteric Subjects on the Web: Chaos, Complexity and Consciousness: The origins, ...
		A Science of Consciousness, the Semeiotics of Mind and the Elements of Personal Philosophy.
		Francis Crick and Christof Koch: Consciousness and Neuroscience
		Consciousness and the New Physics: The Roots of Consciousness Jeffrey Mishlove, PhD
	www.psyche.com /psyche/links/consciousness.html (3327 words)

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