| The Feeling of What Happens: Body and Emotion in the Making of Consciousness Contributor(s): Damasio, Antonio (Author) |
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ISBN: 0156010755 ISBN-13: 9780156010757 Publisher: Mariner Books OUR PRICE: $23.39 Product Type: Paperback Published: October 2000 Annotation: 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 must read for anyone wanting a neurologist's perspective on one of the great unsolved mysteries".--"The New York Times". Line art. |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Psychology | Physiological Psychology - Psychology | Cognitive Psychology & Cognition - Medical | Mental Health |
| Dewey: 153 |
| LCCN: 99026357 |
| Physical Information: 1.05" H x 6.01" W x 9.03" (0.90 lbs) 400 pages |
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| Publisher Description: The publication of this book is an event in the making. 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. 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. In his bestselling Descartes' Error, Damasio revealed the critical importance of emotion in the making of reason. Building on this foundation, he now shows how consciousness is created. Consciousness is the feeling of what happens-our mind noticing the body's reaction to the world and responding to that experience. 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. 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. |
Contributor Bio(s): Damasio, Antonio: - ANTONIO DAMASIO is the David Dornsife Professor of Neuroscience and Director of the Brain and Creativity Institute at the University of Southern California. He is also an adjunct professor at the Salk Institute for Biological Studies in La Jolla. He is a member of both the Institute of Medicine of the National Academy of Sciences and the American Academy of Arts and Sciences. Descartes' Error was an international bestseller. The Feeling of What Happens is being translated into seventeen languages. |