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Consciousness turns out to consist of a maelstrom of events distributed across the brain. These events compete for attention, and as one process outshouts the others, the brain rationalizes the outcome after the fact and concocts the impression that a single self was in charge all along.
Steven Pinker
Events
Single
Others
Consist
Out
Charge
Outcome
Distributed
Maelstrom
Fact
Self
Attention
Along
Brain
Impression
After
Process
Across
Turns
Compete
Consciousness
One is and is not in the centre of the maelstrom of it all.
Harold Pinter
Maelstrom
Centre
I think that black Africa is extremely terrifying. Black Africa can become a maelstrom of warring tribes without the outside world needing to feel the need to do anything about it.
John Keegan
World
Black
Become
Think
Extremely
Tribes
Maelstrom
About
Outside
Outside World
Feel
Terrifying
Without
Africa
Anything
Warring
Need
Needing
If I had political responsibility, I would want to prepare for a plan B that would foresee that the European currency union, that the eurozone, no longer necessarily consists of 17 member states. And that means to make provisions so that other countries are not pulled into the maelstrom through contagion.
Peer Steinbruck
Political
Responsibility
Other
Other Countries
States
Consists
Member
Would
Maelstrom
Through
Had
Contagion
Countries
Longer
Make
Foresee
Provisions
Currency
Want
Plan
Means
Union
European
Eurozone
Prepare
Necessarily
Pulled