About this title: A leading expert of the neurophysiology of emotions, the author aims to show how our consciousness arose out of the development of emotion, at its core human consciousness is consciousness of the feeling and experiencing self. It presents a view of the facility that makes us most profoundly human.
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Binding: Hardcover
Publisher: Harcourt
Date Published: 1999
ISBN-13:9780151003693ISBN:0151003696
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Binding: Hardcover
Publisher: Harcourt
Date Published: 1999
ISBN-13:9780151003693ISBN:0151003696
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Binding: Trade paperback
Publisher: Harvest Books
Date Published: 2000
ISBN-13:9780156010757ISBN:0156010755
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Edition: a small amount of underling
Binding: Trade paperback
Publisher: Harvest Books
Date Published: 2000
ISBN-13:9780156010757ISBN:0156010755
Description: Very good. No dust jacket as issued. Trade paperback (US). Glued binding. 400 p. Contains: Illustrations. Audience: General/trade. read more
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Edition: 1st edition
Binding: Hardcover
Publisher: Harcourt Brace & Company, New York
Date Published: 1999
ISBN-13:9780151003693ISBN:0151003696
Description: Boards in nicked dust jacket. Very good. xii+385pp., illust., notes, index. Neuroscientsit and humanist Antonio Damasio brings a lifetime of research and a literay gift to the frontiers of brain research-the mystery of consciousness-by asking, and answering, profound questions: How is it that we know what we know? How is it that our conscious and private minds have a sense of self? Provocatively, Damasio suggests that the sense of self does not depend on memory or on reasoning and even less on ... read more
Binding: Hardcover
Publisher: Harcourt Brace, New York
Date Published: 1999
ISBN-13:9780151003693ISBN:0151003696
Description: Fine in fine dust jacket. Appears unread, almost as new. First edition. Fine in fine dust jacket. Appears unread, almost as new. Hard cover xii, 386 p. Illustrated. read more
Binding: Softcover
Publisher: Harvest Books
Date Published: 2000-10-01
ISBN-13:9780156010757ISBN:0156010755
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"Damásio is a researcher in the field of neuroscience who believes that it is through our senses and their transference into emotion that we become conscious."
"Damasio takes a very difficult subject and makes it a little less difficult.
Something I (re)learned: "The net result is that as you think about an object, reconstructing part of the accommodations required to perceive it in the past as well as the emotive responses to it in the past is enough to change the proto-self in much the same manner that I have described for when an external object confronts you directly....In all likelihood, even the plans for future perceptuo-motor accommodations are effective modifiers of the proto-self and thus originators of second-order accounts."
In laymen's terms (as I understand it): Just as recalling an object or event (the memory of, say, an illicit love affair) produces neural patterns in the brain not unlike those produced when the object or event was originally perceived (engaging in an illicit love affair), it's likely that the neural patterns produced by an intention (plans to dip your pen in another man's inkwell, so to speak) are also similar.
In Catholic nuns' terms: Just thinking about the sin is tantamount to committing the sin."
"A scientific discussion of what many intuitively presume to be true: that our consciousness and cognition are inextricably linked to our emotions--that when the emotional responses fail to function, logic and cognition are impaired as well. Illustrated by plenty of case studies that make the connection clear."
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