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.

BS 189 Antonio Damasio talks about "Feeling and Knowing

Ginger Campbell, MD

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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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