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In it damasio suggests that the self is the key to conscious minds and that feelings, from the kind he designates as primordial to the wellknown feelings of emotion, are the basic elements in the construction of the protoself and core self. In animals with big brains, emotions mere bodily responses become translated into feelings, and with feelings, a mind a subtle flowing combination of actual images and recalled images in everchanging proportions emerges from the brain. In self comes to mind, damasio seeks to explain how the primordial elements of the mind all these body maps and. A leading neuroscientist explores with authority, with imagination, and with unparalleled mastery how the brain constructs the mind and how the brain makes that mind conscious. Le figaro france the marvel of reading damasios book is to be convinced one can follow the brain at work as it makes the private reality that is the deepest self. In the strange order of things, antonio damasio presents a new vision of what it means to be human. Damasio is the author of several books and heads the brain and creativity institute his book self comes to mind. Antonio damasio has spent the past thirty years studying and writing about.
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In self comes to mind antonio damasio puts forth a hypothesis of how the physical brain produces the selfaware, subjective, experience of consciousness and mind. Antonio damasio has a remarkablescientific imagination and an admirable literary style. Anyone who has read any of damasios previous three books will find self comes to mind retreading some familiar territory, though here set in. Antonio damasio project gutenberg selfpublishing ebooks. Apr 08, 2011 antonio damasio, self comes to mind 2010 antonio damasios self comes to mind is the third in a sequence of books in this blog following john searles philosophy in the 21st century see january 21, 2011 post and david humes treatise on human nature see february 27, 2011 post relating to consciousness and the mind.
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Aug 31, 2011 in self comes to mind, worldrenowned neuroscientist antonio damasio goes against the longstanding idea that consciousness is separate from the body, presenting compelling new scientific evidence that consciousness what we think of as a mind with a self is in fact a biological process created by a living organism. It reveals how the brains development of a self becomes a challenge to natures indifference and opens the way for the appearance of culture, a radical break in the course of evolution. Jun 27, 2016 all of the information in this post came from damasios book self comes to mind. Besides the three traditional perspectives used to study.
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