The Feeling of What Happens: Body, Emotion and the Making of Consciousness Export

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TY - BOOK ID - citeulike:3463253 L3 - citeulike-article-id:3463253 N2 - As you read this, at some level you're aware that you're reading, thanks to a standard human feature commonly referred to as consciousness. What is it--a spiritual phenomenon, an evolutionary tool, a neurological side effect? The best scientists love to tackle big, meaningful questions like this and neuroscientist Antonio Damasio jumps right in with _The Feeling of What Happens_, a poetic examination of interior life through lenses of research, medical cases, philosophical analysis and unashamed introspection. Damasio's perspective is, fortunately, becoming increasingly common in the scientific community; despite all the protestations of old-guard behaviourists, subjective consciousness is a plain fact to most of us and the demand for new methods of inquiry is finally being met. These new methods are not without rigour, though. Damasio and his colleagues examine patients with disruptions and interruptions in consciousness and take deep insights from these tragic lives while offering greater comfort and meaning to the sufferers. His thesis, that our sense of self arises from our need to map relations between self and others, is firmly rooted in medical and evolutionary research but stands up well to self-examination. His examples from the weird world of neurology are unsettling yet deeply humanising--real people with serious problems spring to life in the pages but they are never reduced to their deficits. _The Feeling of What Happens_ captures the spirit of discovery as it plunges deeper than ever into the darkest waters yet. --_Rob Lightner_ SN - 0099288761 TI - The Feeling of What Happens: Body, Emotion and the Making of Consciousness PB - Vintage KW - body KW - cognition KW - consciousness AU - Damasio, Antonio PY - 2000/10/05/ UR - http://www.amazon.ca/exec/obidos/redirect?tag=citeulike09-20&path=ASIN/0099288761 ER -