The Feeling of What Happens: Body and Emotion in the Making of Consciousness Paperback - 2000 - 1st Edition
by Antonio Damasio
A gifted medical clinician with decades of caring for patients with brain damage offers a new understanding of the biological roots of consciousness and its role in survival. "A must read for anyone wanting a neurologist's perspective on one of the great unsolved mysteries".--"The New York Times". Line art.
Summary
Antonio Damasio examines the biological roots of consciousness and its role in our survival in The Feeling of What Happens.
How is it that we know what we know? How is it that our conscious and private minds have a sense of self? A gifted medical clinician and scientific thinker, Damasio helps readers to ask and answer questions about what it is to be human. His elegant investigation of feeling and emotion offers a new understanding of the conscious mind and, as the New York Times has noted, “will change your experience of yourself.”
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I have always been intrigued by the specific moment when, as we sit waiting in the audience, the door to the stage opens and a performer steps into the light; or, to take the other perspective, the moment when a performer who waits in semidarkness sees the same door open revealing the lights, the stage, and the audience.
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- Title The Feeling of What Happens: Body and Emotion in the Making of Consciousness
- Author Antonio Damasio
- Binding Paperback
- Edition number 1st
- Edition 1
- Pages 400
- Volumes 1
- Language ENG
- Publisher Mariner Books, New York
- Date 2000-10-10
- ISBN 9780156010757 / 0156010755
- Weight 0.9 lbs (0.41 kg)
- Dimensions 9.03 x 6.01 x 1.05 in (22.94 x 15.27 x 2.67 cm)
- Library of Congress subjects Consciousness, Mind and body
- Library of Congress Catalog Number 99026357
- Dewey Decimal Code 153
Media reviews
"Stunning...Unashamedly grapples with these issues, and in the process provides the first truly compelling neurobiological account of the self."—Nature
"Both Descartes' Error and The Feeling of What Happens are essential reading. They are ground-breaking classics of psychology and neuroscience. These are books to buy, keep and ponder upon."—Journal of the Royal Society of Medicine
"A tour de force of intuition, investigation and integration."—Sunday Times (London)
"What makes his views so noteworthy is that they're grounded not in theoretical musings but in years of clinical research."—Time
"This is not casual reading, but eventually anyone can master it; it will change your experience of yourself."—The New York Times Book Review, Editors' Choice
"A landmark in the interdisciplinary project of consciousness research."—Scientific American
"Damasio is just the one to show you how fascinating you really are."—The Bloomsbury Review
Citations
- New York Times, 12/03/2000, Page 109
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