The Phenomenon of Science: a Cybernetic Approach to Human Evolution
by Valentin F. Turchin

Handbook of Cognition and Emotion by Tim Dalgleish, Mick Power

Chapter 3: Basic Emotions by Paul Ekman

Kinds of Minds. Toward an understanding of consciousness by Daniel C. Dennett

Our brains are modestly larger than the brains of our nearest relatives (although not larger than the brains of some dolphins and whales), but this is almost certainly not the source of our greater intelligence. The primary source, I want to suggest, if our habit of off-loading as much as possible of our cognitive tasks into the environment itself -- extruding our minds (that is, our mental projects and activities) into the surrounding world, where a host of peripheral devices we construct can store, process, and re-represent our meanings, streamlining, enhancing, and protecting processes of transformation that are our thinking. The widespread practice of off-loading releases us from the limitations of our animal brains (pp.134-5)

Dynamical Systems in Neuroscience: The Geometry of Excitability and Bursting
by Eugene M. Izhikevich

Enchanted Looms: Conscious Networks in Brains and Computers by Rodney Cotterill

...significance of any sensory input only emerges as a consequence of the animal's own motor explorations... (p.414)

We enjoy tremendous advantage of being able to veto an action that has already been given the system's permission to proceed, even though that veto is excercised deterministically and unconsciously. (p.428)