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In primitive man, emotion carried the waves of instinctive intelligence up and out to the unrealised senses. It pushed and it strained ceaselessly from within to bring the sense of knowing, the sense of self, into the incipient human brain and then into the outer senses. When the last connection was made linking each sense organ in the outer world to the physical brain, man not only possessed the instinctive senses, but he also knew he did. As soon as he was able to reflect that he could see, hear, smell or touch something, his sense of self was born.

-From The Origins of Man and the Universe, by Barry Long