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Stream of Affect
We have a mind. We all believe we do, and we have mental experience. We have perceptions of mentation that we don’t define as the same thing as our mind proper. What is mentation? Thought, perception and emotion. Perception AND emotion? Indeed, because we can perceive our emotional state as a process in itself. Now…
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Animal Stream of Consciousness
Both streams of consciousness (top down and bottom up) are about equally perceptive. Again, the brain likes to conserve energy. This is also part of why the bottom up novelty reactive flow of consciousness is often so quiet, but sometimes something happens. A person has a near death experience, or has undergone a lot of…