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9780151003693

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

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    9780151003693

  • ISBN10:

    0151003696

  • Edition: 1st
  • Format: Hardcover
  • Copyright: 1999-09-01
  • Publisher: HOUGHTON MIFFLIN

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Summary

The publication of this book is an event in the making. All over the world scientists, psychologists, and philosophers are waiting to read Antonio Damasio's new theory of the nature of consciousness and the construction of the self. A renowned and revered scientist and clinician, Damasio has spent decades following amnesiacs down hospital corridors, waiting for comatose patients to awaken, and devising ingenious research using PET scans to piece together the great puzzle of consciousness. In his bestselling Descartes' Error, Damasio revealed the critical importance of emotion in the making of reason. Building on this foundation, he now shows how consciousness is created. Consciousness is the feeling of what happens-our mind noticing the body's reaction to the world and responding to that experience. Without our bodies there can be no consciousness, which is at heart a mechanism for survival that engages body, emotion, and mind in the glorious spiral of human life. A hymn to the possibilities of human existence, a magnificent work of ingenious science, a gorgeously written book, The Feeling of What Happens is already being hailed as a classic.

Author Biography

Antonio R. Damasio is the M.W. Van Allen Distinguished Professor and Head of the Department of Neurology at the University of Iowa College of Medicine in Iowa City. He is also Adjunct Professor at the Salk Institute for Biological Studies in La Jolla. Damasio, internationally recognized for his research on the neuroscience of the mind, is a member both of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences and of the Institute of Medicine of the National Academy of Sciences. Among his many awards are the Pessoa Prize, which he shared with his wife, and, most recently, the Ipsen Prize.

Table of Contents

PART I Introduction 1(33)
Stepping into the Light
3(30)
PART II Feeling and Knowing 33(98)
Emotion and Feeling
35(47)
Core Consciousness
82(25)
The Hint Half Hinted
107(24)
PART III A Biology for Knowing 131(146)
The Organism and the Object
133(35)
The Making of Core Consciousness
168(27)
Extended Consciousness
195(39)
The Neurology of Consciousness
234(43)
PART IV Bound to Know 277(40)
Feeling Feelings
279(17)
Using Consciousness
296(16)
Under the Light
312(5)
Appendix Notes on Mind and Brain 317(19)
Endnotes 336(30)
Acknowledgements 366(3)
Index 369(17)
About the Author 386

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