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The Feeling of What Happens: Body and Emotion in the Making of Consciousness Hardcover - 1999
by Damasio, Antonio R
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- Title The Feeling of What Happens: Body and Emotion in the Making of Consciousness
- Author Damasio, Antonio R
- Binding Hardcover
- Edition First edition
- Condition UsedGood
- Pages 386
- Volumes 1
- Language ENG
- Publisher Houghton Mifflin, Orlando, Florida, U.S.A.
- Date September 27, 1999
- Illustrated Yes
- Bookseller's Inventory # 0WOPD40053Z4
- ISBN 9780151003693 / 0151003696
- Weight 1.6 lbs (0.73 kg)
- Dimensions 9.24 x 6.27 x 1.33 in (23.47 x 15.93 x 3.38 cm)
- Library of Congress subjects Consciousness, Mind and body
- Library of Congress Catalog Number 99026357
- Dewey Decimal Code 153
Summary
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.
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I have always been intrigued by the specific moment when, as we sit waiting in the audience, the door to the stage opens and a performer steps into the light; or, to take the other perspective, the moment when a performer who waits in semidarkness sees the same door open, revealing the lights, the stage, and the audience.