The feeling of what happens - Antonio Damasio
body and emotion in the making of consciousness
KORTE INHOUD
In this eagerly awaited book, the admired neuroscientist and humanist Antonio R. Damasio brings a lifetime of research and a literary gift to the last frontier of brain research - the mystery of conciousness.
How is it that we know what we know? How is it that our conscious and private minds have a sense of self? These are the questions Antonio Damasio considers in this book.
In a radical departure from current views on consciousness, Damasio contends that explaining how we make mental images or attend to those images will not suffice to elucidate the mystery. A satisfactory hypothesis for the making of consciousness must attempt to explain how the sense of self comes to the mind.
Damasio suggests that the sense of self does not depend on memory or on reasoning and even less on language. The sense of self depends, he argues, on the brain's ability to portray the living organism in the act of relating to an object. That ability, in turn, is a consequence of the brain's involvment in the process of regulating life...
How is it that we know what we know? How is it that our conscious and private minds have a sense of self? These are the questions Antonio Damasio considers in this book.
In a radical departure from current views on consciousness, Damasio contends that explaining how we make mental images or attend to those images will not suffice to elucidate the mystery. A satisfactory hypothesis for the making of consciousness must attempt to explain how the sense of self comes to the mind.
Damasio suggests that the sense of self does not depend on memory or on reasoning and even less on language. The sense of self depends, he argues, on the brain's ability to portray the living organism in the act of relating to an object. That ability, in turn, is a consequence of the brain's involvment in the process of regulating life...
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