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

The Feeling of What Happens

Body and Emotion in the Making of Consciousness

By: Antonio Damasio

Paperback | 10 October 2000

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Widely praised for his innovative scientific thinking and elegant writing, Antonio Damasio achieves a new understanding of consciousness by asking-and answering-profound questions: How is it that we know what we know? How is it that our conscious and private minds have a sense of self?

A gifted medical clinician with decades of caring for patients with brain damage, a great scientific thinker, and an extraordinary writer, Damasio offers a new understanding of the biological roots of consciousness and its role in survival. Damasio's work on feeling and emotion forever joins our minds and bodies, offering an arrestingly original way of understanding what it is to be human.

After reading Damasio's landmark, Descartes' Error, Jonas Salk wrote, "You will never again look at yourself or another without wondering what goes on behind the eyes that so meet." As to The Feeling of What Happens, the New York Times wrote, "Unlike any other book here, it will change your experience of yourself."
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"Antonio Damasio has done it again! Writing for the layman as well as the scientist, he constructs a compelling solution to the problem of consciousness."--Victoria Fromkin, UCLA "This is an extraordinary book. I know of nothing like it."--Jerome Kagan, Harvard University "There is no simpler way to say this: read the book to learn who you are."--Jorie Graham, Poet and Pulitzer Prize Winner "Everyone will be talking about it; everyone will have to read it."--Patricia and Paul Churchland, UCSD "One of the best brain stories of the decade...A must read book for anyone wanting a neurologist's perspective on one of the great unsolved mysteries." The New York Times "Stunning...Unashamedly grapples with these issues, and in the process provides the first truly compelling neurobiological account of the self." Nature "Both Descartes' Error and The Feeling of What Happens are essential reading. They are ground-breaking classics of psychology and neuroscience. These are books to buy, keep and ponder upon." Journal of the Royal Society of Medicine "A tour de force of intuition, investigation and integration." Sunday Times (London) "What makes his views so noteworthy is that they're grounded not in theoretical musings but in years of clinical research." Time "This is not casual reading, but eventually anyone can master it; it will change your experience of yourself." The New York Times Book Review, Editors' Choice "A landmark in the interdisciplinary project of consciousness research." Scientific American "Damasio is just the one to show you how fascinating you really are." The Bloomsbury Review "