A gifted medical clinician with decades of caring for patients with brain damage offers a new understanding of the biological roots of Consciousness and its role in survival.
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..
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.
Consciousness is the Feeling of What happens-our mind noticing the body\'s reaction to the world and responding to that experience.
Building on this foundation, he now shows how Consciousness is created.
In his bestselling Descartes\' Error, Damasio revealed the critical importance of Emotion in the Making of reason.
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.
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.
The publication of this book is an event in the making.
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A must read for anyone wanting a neurologist\'s perspective on one of the great unsolved mysteries.--The New York Times.
A gifted medical clinician with decades of caring for patients with brain damage offers a new understanding of the biological roots of Consciousness and its role in survival
