Antonio R. Damasio
The Feeling of What Happens Publication date : June 1, 2002
What makes us human beings? Is it the gift of consciousness?
Antonio Damasio proposes a new theory that offers a biological explanation for the feeling of consciousness of the self.
How does the brain create mental structures that enable us to see images? How does it create the feeling of self, which we experience when we think of something, perceive an object, or imagine something?
The consciousness of self does not exist arbitrarily. Its existence can be explained if not completely demonstrated. We can become familiar with it, and we now know what we are and why this in itself is a revolution.
Damasios book uncovers for the first time the neurobiological foundations of the self. Jean-Pierre Changeux
Antonio Damasio is probably the worlds most outstanding neurologist in brain function. David Hubel, Nobel Prize winner
This is an extraordinary book. I know of nothing like it. Jerome Kagan
This book is marvellous a major work of meaning and importance. It is an amazing marriage of poetic intuition and precise investigation. Peter Brook
Antonio R. Damasio heads the department of neurology at the University of Iowa College of Medicine, in the United States, and teaches at the Salk Institute for Biological Studies, La Jolla, California. He is the author of Descartes Error.
Antonio Damasio proposes a new theory that offers a biological explanation for the feeling of consciousness of the self.
How does the brain create mental structures that enable us to see images? How does it create the feeling of self, which we experience when we think of something, perceive an object, or imagine something?
The consciousness of self does not exist arbitrarily. Its existence can be explained if not completely demonstrated. We can become familiar with it, and we now know what we are and why this in itself is a revolution.
Damasios book uncovers for the first time the neurobiological foundations of the self. Jean-Pierre Changeux
Antonio Damasio is probably the worlds most outstanding neurologist in brain function. David Hubel, Nobel Prize winner
This is an extraordinary book. I know of nothing like it. Jerome Kagan
This book is marvellous a major work of meaning and importance. It is an amazing marriage of poetic intuition and precise investigation. Peter Brook
Antonio R. Damasio heads the department of neurology at the University of Iowa College of Medicine, in the United States, and teaches at the Salk Institute for Biological Studies, La Jolla, California. He is the author of Descartes Error.