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Feeling & Knowing : Making Minds Conscious

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From one of the world’s leading neuroscientists: a succinct, illuminating, wholly engaging investigation of the phenomenon of consciousness and its relation to life

In recent decades, many philosophers and cognitive scientists have declared the question of consciousness unsolvable, but Antonio Damasio is convinced that recent findings in biology, neuroscience, psychology, and artificial intelligence have given us all that is needed to solve its mystery. In Feeling & Knowing, Damasio elucidates myriad aspects of consciousness and presents his analysis and new insights in a way that is faithful to our own intuitive sense of the experience.
 
In forty-eight brief chapters, Damasio helps us understand the relationship between consciousness and the mind, how consciousness is distinguishable from mere wakefulness or sense perception, why the role of feeling is absolutely central, and why the brain is essential for the development of consciousness. He elegantly synthesizes the recent findings of various sciences with the philosophy of consciousness and, most significantly, presents his original research, which has transformed our understanding of the brain and human behavior. Here is an indispensable guide to consciousness and a stunning exposition of how we experience the world around us and our own place within it.
 

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