The Primordial Emotions: The Dawning of Consciousness
The definition of consciousness, and self-awareness -- What some distinguished scientists have proposed on the nature of consciousness : John Searle, Homer Smith, Vernon Mountcastle, and Roger Sperry -- Consciousness in animals -- The appetite for salt and the mind : intention in salt mining elephants -- Phylogeny, and the emergence of primary consciousness : Edelman's theory -- An interoceptor driven theory of origin of primary consciousness -- The physiology of the primordial emotion of thirst -- The neuroimaging of thirst by positron emission tomography -- Neuroimaging of other primordial emotions, and also the second level distance receptor evoked emotions -- Anatomical structure and physiological functions subserving higher order consciousness -- The biology of emotion
