The real history of consciousness starts with one's first lie.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
I'm not the first person to have discovered evidence that consciousness exists beyond the body. Brief, wonderful glimpses of this realm are as old as human history.
Fears and lies intensify consciousness.
When brains get sufficiently big, presumably, as human brains have, consciousness seems to emerge.
Consciousness itself is an infinite regress. This explains coincidences.
The first lie of fiction is that the author gives some order to the chaos of life: chronological order, or whatever order the author chooses.
I became really interested in the study of consciousness.
We call first truths those we discover after all the others.
Language comes first. It's not that language grows out of consciousness, if you haven't got language, you can't be conscious.
Modern science tells us that the conscious self arises from a purely physical brain. We do not have immaterial souls.
The first thing which I can record concerning myself is, that I was born. These are wonderful words. This life, to which neither time nor eternity can bring diminution - this everlasting living soul, began. My mind loses itself in these depths.