{"id":34352,"date":"2012-02-09T19:41:00","date_gmt":"2012-02-09T19:41:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.augustwritesabook.com\/tumblr-backup\/2012\/02\/09\/as-we-awaken-from-sleep-our-consciousness\/"},"modified":"2012-02-09T19:41:00","modified_gmt":"2012-02-09T19:41:00","slug":"as-we-awaken-from-sleep-our-consciousness","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.augustwritesabook.com\/tumblr-backup\/2012\/02\/09\/as-we-awaken-from-sleep-our-consciousness\/","title":{"rendered":""},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote><p>As we awaken from sleep, our consciousness undergoes a radical transformation composed of dramatic adjustments in neural processes. Some neural circuits go quiet while others come online. The entire orchestration of the symphony of mind unfolds like changes in a music score, and while there is no single, master conductor\u2026 the decentralized process does have hot spots of top-down modulation linked by connections built over evolutionary time. These \u2018command centers,\u2019 for lack of a more accurate but succinct term, do one thing really well: They create our sense of self, our sense of being a protagonist in a continuously unfolding nonlinear narrative through which we can travel again and again in our memories and plan possible and even impossible futures.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<div class='attribution'>The <a href=\"http:\/\/lareviewofbooks.org\/post\/17208934569\/the-symphony-of-self\">science of waking up<\/a>, from Antonio Damasio\u2019s excellent <em><a href=\"http:\/\/www.brainpickings.org\/index.php\/2011\/02\/24\/5-must-read-books-by-ted-2011-speakers\/\">Self Comes to Mind<\/a> <\/em>\u2013 an exploration of <a href=\"http:\/\/www.brainpickings.org\/index.php\/2010\/09\/07\/what-does-it-mean-to-be-human\/#damasio\">what makes us human<\/a>. \u00a0 <em>(<a href=\"http:\/\/andrewsullivan.thedailybeast.com\/2012\/02\/the-science-of-waking-up.html?utm_source=feedburner&amp;utm_medium=feed&amp;utm_campaign=Feed%3A+andrewsullivan%2FrApM+%28The+Daily+Dish%29\">via<\/a>)<\/em><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>As we awaken from sleep, our consciousness undergoes a radical transformation composed of dramatic adjustments in neural processes. Some neural circuits go quiet while others come online. The entire orchestration of the symphony of mind unfolds like changes in a music score, and while there is no single, master conductor\u2026 the decentralized process does have &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.augustwritesabook.com\/tumblr-backup\/2012\/02\/09\/as-we-awaken-from-sleep-our-consciousness\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"quote","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[8957,4822,644],"class_list":["post-34352","post","type-post","status-publish","format-quote","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-fascinating","tag-science","tag-sleep","post_format-post-format-quote"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.augustwritesabook.com\/tumblr-backup\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34352","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.augustwritesabook.com\/tumblr-backup\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.augustwritesabook.com\/tumblr-backup\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.augustwritesabook.com\/tumblr-backup\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.augustwritesabook.com\/tumblr-backup\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=34352"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.augustwritesabook.com\/tumblr-backup\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34352\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.augustwritesabook.com\/tumblr-backup\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=34352"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.augustwritesabook.com\/tumblr-backup\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=34352"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.augustwritesabook.com\/tumblr-backup\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=34352"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}