Name: Self Comes to Mind: Constructing the Conscious Brain
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Author: Antonio Damasio

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Self Comes to Mind: Constructing the Conscious Brain

Type

Physical Book

Author

Antonio Damasio

Publisher

Vintage

Year

2012

Language

English

Pages

384

Format

Paperback

ISBN13

9780307474957

Synopsis "Self Comes to Mind: Constructing the Conscious Brain "

A leading neuroscientist explores with authority, with imagination, and with unparalleled mastery how the brain constructs the mind and how the brain makes that mind conscious. Antonio Damasio has spent the past thirty years researching and and revealing how the brain works. Here, in his most ambitious and stunning work yet, he rejects the long-standing idea that consciousness is somehow separate from the body, and presents compelling new scientific evidence that posits an evolutionary perspective. His view entails a radical change in the way the history of the conscious mind is viewed and told, suggesting that the brain’s development of a human self is a challenge to nature’s indifference. This development helps to open the way for the appearance of culture, perhaps one of our most defining characteristics as thinking and self-aware beings.

Antonio Damasio

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Antonio Damasio (Lisbon, 1944) is a professor of neuroscience, psychology, and philosophy, and heads the Brain and Creativity Institute at the University of Southern California (Los Angeles). Trained as a neurologist and neuroscientist, he has made fundamental contributions to brain processes and their relationship with emotions, feelings, and consciousness, and is considered one of the most eminent psychologists of our time. He holds honorary doctorates from several top-tier universities and is a member of some of the world's most prestigious scientific academies. He has also received numerous awards, including the Prince of Asturias Award for Science and Technology in 2005 and the Award for Most Recognized Researcher from the Institute for Scientific Information. His research and ideas are discussed in books such as Descartes' Error, The Feeling of What Happens, Self Comes to Mind, and Looking for Spinoza, translated worldwide and published in Spanish by Destino.

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