View all copies of this ISBN edition:. Synopsis About this title A leading expert of the neurophysiology of emotions, the author aims to show how our consciousness arose out of the development of emotion, at its core human consciousness is consciousness of the feeling and experiencing self.
Review : As you read this, at some level you're aware that you're reading, thanks to a standard human feature commonly referred to as consciousness. Do so, and you will be ahead of the ruck by at least a decade" Journal Of The Royal Society of Medicine "About this title" may belong to another edition of this title. About AbeBooks. Other Popular Editions of the Same Title. Vintage, Softcover.
Harcourt, Hardcover. Search for all books with this author and title.
Customers who bought this item also bought. Stock Image. Published by William Heinemann Ltd Used Hardcover Quantity Available: 1. MusicMagpie Stockport, United Kingdom.
Seller Rating:. Used Softcover Quantity Available: 1. Anybook Ltd. Lincoln, United Kingdom.
Published by William Heinemann, London Published by William Heinemann Ltd. Seller Image.
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. Designing Sociable Robots Cynthia L. Descartes' Error was an international bestseller. The Feeling of What Happens is being translated into seventeen languages.
The Feeling of What Happens. BODY AND EMOTION. IN THE MAKING. OF CONSCIOUSNESS. Antonio R. Damasio. HARCOURT BRACE & COMPANY. The Feeling of What Happens: Body and Emotion in the Making of Consciousness [Antonio Damasio] on giuliettasprint.konfer.eu *FREE* shipping on qualifying offers.
In his magnificent book, The Principles of Psychology , William James drew on the best empirical psychology, biology, and neuroscience of his day to argue for the intimate connection of thought and feeling and to articulate his famous theory of the stream of consciousness. Now, more than a century later, in a spirit much like that of James, Antonio Damasio has made stunning use of recent developments in cognitive neuroscience to probe the role of the body and emotion in thought and to explore the nature and workings of human consciousness.
With his earlier book, Descartes' Error , Damasio attracted widespread acclaim with his argument that various kinds of practical and social reasoning depend upon our capacity to experience emotions and feelings. In this new book, he extends his inquiries beyond the role of feeling in thought to take up the problem of what makes it possible for us to experience a sense of ownership of our experiences and thoughts--to have what we call "consciousness.
Damasio addresses two major problems concerning consciousness.
The first is to learn how the brain, operating within an embodied organism that is interacting with its environment, gives rise to mental images of objects, events, thoughts, feelings, actions. The second problem is "how, in parallel with engendering mental patterns for an object, the brain also engenders a sense of self in the act of knowing" 9. This sense of self is our sense that our experiences and [End Page ] ideas are ours that is, are "owned" by us.
Damasio's hypothesis is that your sense of self involves the feeling of what is happening to you--the feeling of how "your being is modified by the acts of apprehending something" Damasio explains that his most significant breakthrough on this difficult problem occurred when he. The story Damasio tells about how we know ourselves via our feeling of ourselves as affected by our interactions with our environment is, as we would expect, a complicated story that is not for the faint of heart.
It requires exploratory forays into brain anatomy, neural functioning, the neurochemical basis of emotions, brain lesion studies, philosophy, and psychology.