From one of the world\'s leading neuroscientists: a succinct, illuminating, wholly engaging investigation of how biology, neuroscience, psychology, and artificial intelligence have given us the tools to unlock the mysteries of human consciousness One thrilling insight after another ...
Here is an indispensable guide to understanding how we experience the world within and around us and find our place in the universe..
He combines the latest discoveries in various sciences with philosophy and discusses his original research, which has transformed our understanding of the brain and human behavior.
In the forty-eight brief chapters of Feeling & Knowing , and in writing that remains faithful to our intuitive sense of what Feeling and experiencing are about, Damasio helps us understand why being Conscious is not the same as sensing, why nervous systems are essential for the development of feelings, and why Feeling opens the way to consciousness writ large. -- The New York Times Book Review In recent decades, many philosophers and cognitive scientists have declared the problem of consciousness unsolvable, but Antonio Damasio is convinced that recent findings across multiple scientific disciplines have given us a way to understand consciousness and its significance for human life.
Damasio has succeeded brilliantly in narrowing the gap between body and mind.
From one of the world\'s leading neuroscientists: a succinct, illuminating, wholly engaging investigation of how biology, neuroscience, psychology, and artificial intelligence have given us the tools to unlock the mysteries of human consciousness One thrilling insight after another ..
