Antonio Damasio on "Feeling & Knowing" (BS 189)

Neurologist and best-selling author Antonio Damasio is one of our most requested guests. This month we finally had the opportunity to talk about his newest book Feeling & Knowing: Making Minds Conscious, which he explained is somewhat different from his previous efforts. His goal was to write something "briefer" and more accessible. Thus it is definitely a book that requires no background in neuroscience.

The key theme is that feelings and emotions are foundational aspects of Consciousness.

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Links and References:

• Feeling & Knowing: Making Minds Conscious by Antonio Damasio

• Self Comes to Mind by Antonio Damasio (BS 90)

• The Strange Order of Things: Life, Feeling, and the Making of Cultures by Antonio Damasio

• Damasio, A., Damasio, H., & Tranel, D. (2013). Persistence of feelings and sentience after bilateral damage of the insula. Cerebral cortex (New York, N.Y. : 1991), 23(4), 833–846. https://doi.org/10.1093/cercor/bhs077 (PMC Free)

• Antonio Damasio, MD, PhD, Professor USC

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