The author and neuroscientist engage in a dialogue about how we know, what we feel, and how we understand ourselves. What is consciousness, and how does it emerge from the flesh of the brain? For ...

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How do living organisms become conscious of what is happening to them and around them? How is it that I as well as you, reader of these words, can be conscious of our respective existences and of what ...

As he has done previously, USC neuroscientist Damasio (Descartes' Error) explores the process that leads to consciousness. And as he has also done previously, he alternates between some exquisite ...

The third in a series that began with Descartes' Error, this book deftly combines recent advances in neuroscience with charged meditations on foundational 17th-century philosopher Baruch Spinoza, and ...

Why do humans have consciousness? In his new book, Self Comes To Mind, neurologist Antonio Damasio argues that consciousness gave humans an evolutionary advantage. Damasio describes the differences ...

Nietzsche would have given four cheers for this intricately argued book, which is at once scientifically rigorous and humanely accommodating, and, so far as this reviewer can judge, revolutionary.

Bruce Adolphe composed "Self Comes to Mind" (in three movements) based on a text by Antonio Damasio and dedicated the music to Damasio and Yo-Yo Ma. On May 3, the American Museum of Natural History in ...