The Feeling of What Happens: Body and Emotion in the Making of Consciousness
A leading neuroscientist explores with authority, with imagination, and with unparalleled mastery how the brain constructs the mind and how the brain makes that mind conscious.
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Antonio Damasio has spent the past thirty years researching and and revealing how the brain works. Here, in his most ambitious and stunning work yet, he rejects the long-standing idea that consciousness is somehow separate from the body, and presents compelling new scientific evidence that posits an evolutionary perspective. His view entails a radical change in the way the history of the conscious mind is viewed and told, suggesting that the brain’s development of a human self is a challenge to nature’s indifference. This development helps to open the way for the appearance of culture, perhaps one of our most defining characteristics as thinking and self-aware beings.
Country | USA |
Brand | Vintage |
Manufacturer | Vintage |
Binding | Paperback |
Color | White |
ReleaseDate | 2012-03-06 |
UnitCount | 1 |
EANs | 9780307474957 |