Damasio writes, "body, brain, and mind are manifestations of a single organism" (Looking for Spinoza, p. 195).
I like the idea of consciousness as a kind of time delay that allows the body/brain more time to process complex decisions. A stretching out of the "present."
Could this time delay be achieved by brain areas circulating information, re-routing it and processing it at each stage until a critical mass is reached? Thinking as brain regions processing, modifying, forwarding (to multiple other areas), the action centers holding off until a neural "consensus" is formed (enough neurons firing to make a decision one way or another)?
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