Name: Feeling & Knowing: Making Minds Conscious
SKU: 54400181
Price: 602.00 TWD
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Author: Antonio Damasio
ISBN: 9780525563075

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Feeling & Knowing: Making Minds Conscious

Type

Physical Book

Author

Antonio Damasio

Publisher

Vintage

Language

English

Pages

256

Format

Paperback

Dimensions

20.2x13x2 cm

Weight

0.25 kg.

ISBN13

9780525563075

Synopsis "Feeling & Knowing: Making Minds Conscious"

From one of the world's leading neuroscientists: a succinct, illuminating, wholly engaging investigation of how biology, neuroscience, psychology, and artificial intelligence have given us the tools to unlock the mysteries of human consciousness "One thrilling insight after another ... Damasio has succeeded brilliantly in narrowing the gap between body and mind." --The New York Times Book ReviewIn recent decades, many philosophers and cognitive scientists have declared the problem of consciousness unsolvable, but Antonio Damasio is convinced that recent findings across multiple scientific disciplines have given us a way to understand consciousness and its significance for human life. In the forty-eight brief chapters of Feeling & Knowing, and in writing that remains faithful to our intuitive sense of what feeling and experiencing are about, Damasio helps us understand why being conscious is not the same as sensing, why nervous systems are essential for the development of feelings, and why feeling opens the way to consciousness writ large. He combines the latest discoveries in various sciences with philosophy and discusses his original research, which has transformed our understanding of the brain and human behavior. Here is an indispensable guide to understanding how we experience the world within and around us and find our place in the universe.

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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