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    Antonio and Hanna Damasio argue that interoception and the generation of homeostatic feelings are crucial to understanding the emergence of conscious states. Consciousness occurs when the contents of the mind, such as perceptions and thoughts, are spontaneously identified as belonging to a specific organism through a continuous flow of homeostatic feelings, which translate the process of life regulation. They propose that homeostatic feelings were the inaugural phenomena of consciousness in biological evolution and were selected because the spontaneous information they provided about the current state of life regulation conferred extraordinary advantages by enabling overt guidance of life regulation.

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    Antonio and Hanna Damasio argue that interoception and the generation of homeostatic feelings are crucial to understanding the emergence of conscious states. Consciousness occurs when the contents of the mind, such as perceptions and thoughts, are spontaneously identified as belonging to a specific organism through a continuous flow of homeostatic feelings, which translate the process of life regulation. They propose that homeostatic feelings were the inaugural phenomena of consciousness in biological evolution and were selected because the spontaneous information they provided about the current state of life regulation conferred extraordinary advantages by enabling overt guidance of life regulation.

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    Inanewtheoryofconsciousness,AntonioandHannaDamasioarguethatinteroceptionandthegeneration

    ofhomeostaticfeelingsarecrucialtounderstandinghowconsciousstatesemerge.

    Consciousnessoccurswhenmindcontents,suchasperceptionsand instead,onmechanismsunderlyingothercomplexprocesses,
    thoughts,are'spontaneouslyidentifiedasbelongingtoaspecificor- suchasattentionandintegrationofinformation.3-SThatiswhy
    ganism/owner'.Theidentificationisprovidedbyacontinuousflow webeginbyattemptingtomakeclearwhatweregardasthees-
    of'homeostaticfeelings',whichtranslatetheprocessofliferegulation senceofconsciousness.
    andincludesalientfluctuations,e.g.hunger,pain,wellbeing,and
    statesclosertoequilibrium,e.gplainfeelingsoflife/existence. Consciousness
    Weproposethathomeostaticfeelingsweretheinauguralphe-
    nomenaofconsciousnessinbiologicalevolutionandwereselected Consciousnessoccurswhenthecontentsofmind-whatweper-
    becausethespontaneousinformationtheyprovidedregardingthe ceiveandrecollectandponder-are'spontaneouslyidentifiedas
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    homeostaticfeelingsenabledovertguidanceofliferegulation. flowingwithcontents,aswhenwecontemplateacomplexprob-
    Wealsooutlineamechanismforgeneratinghomeostaticfeelings lem,orsmall,withonlyafewcontents,aswhenwewakeup
    basedonatwo-wayinteractionbetween(i)thenervoussystem, fromdeepsleep.Consciousnessmakesitsappearancewhena
    specificallyneuralelementsofearlyinteroceptivesystems;and(ii) mindprocess-oflargescaleorsmall-becomesenrichedby
    non-neuralcomponentsoftheorganism,thebody'sinterior,name- 'knowledge'thatlinksittoaspecificorganism.Consciousness
    ly,visceraandcirculatingchemicalmolecules.Feelingsemergefrom shouldnotbeconfusedwiththemereintegrationofimages,or
    thisinteraction,ashybridandcontinuousphenomena,related withthescaleofthatintegration,orwiththeattentionaccorded
    simultaneouslytoneural/representationalphenomena,andtonon tosomeimagesindetrimentofothers.'Webecomeconscious
    neural/bodilyprocesses.Theyidentifytheorganisminwhichthey whenweknow,withoutanyquestionbeingasked,thatthecon-
    inherebycontinuouslygeneratingthe'feelingness'oftraditional tentsofourmindsbelongtoourrespectivebodies.
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    Sensingandminding
    Theproblemofconsciousness Thephenomenonofconsciousnessneedstobedistinguishedfrom
    thesimplerabilityto'sense'or'detect'objectsandconditionsinthe
    Neurosciencehasbeenremarkablysuccessfulatelucidatingthe
    physiologicalmechanismsbehindsomeofthemostcomplexfunc-
    environment.°Numerouslivingspecies,frombacteriatoplants,
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    tionsoflivingorganisms,namelymemory,emotions,language, sensed.Itislikelvthatsensing,whosephusioloovhingesoncell

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