I got interested in the emotions after studying patients who had lost the ability to emote and feel under certain circumstances. Many… — Antonio Damasio Copy Share Image
Rather than being a luxury, emotions are a very intelligent way of driving an organism toward certain outcomes. — Antonio Damasio Copy Share Image
Feeling of an emotion is a process that is distinct from having the emotion in the first place. So it helps to… — Antonio Damasio Copy Share Image
Emotion is set in our genome and that we all have with a certain programmed nature that is modified by our experience… — Antonio Damasio Copy Share Image
When we talk about emotion, we really talk about a collection of behaviors that are produced by the brain. You can look… — Antonio Damasio Copy Share Image
If you have just an emotion, you would not necessarily feel it. To feel an emotion, you need to represent in the… — Antonio Damasio Copy Share Image
The emotion is the execution of a very complex program of actions. Some actions that are actually movements, like movement that you… — Antonio Damasio Copy Share Image
The mechanism of primary emotions does not describe the full range of emotional behaviors. They are, to be sure, the basic mechanism.… — Antonio Damasio Copy Share Image
So, you can define emotions very simply as the process of perceiving what is going on in the organs when you are… — Antonio Damasio Copy Share Image
Emotion consists of a very well orchestrated set of alterations in the body that has, as a general purpose, making life more… — Antonio Damasio Copy Share Image
Emotion operates, very often when you think about how you react to the world, you know, something is happening to you, you're… — Antonio Damasio Copy Share Image
Leaving out appraisal also would render the biological description of the phenomena of emotion vulnerable to the caricature that emotions without an… — Antonio Damasio Copy Share Image
We may express them [emotions] physically slightly differently, and it's of course graded depending on the circumstance, but the essence of the… — Antonio Damasio Copy Share Image
When you experience the emotion of sadness, there will be changes in facial expression, and your body will be closed in, withdrawn.… — Antonio Damasio Copy Share Image
We are not thinking machines that feel; rather, we are feeling machines that think. — Antonio Damasio Copy Share
Consciousness begins when brains acquire the power, the simple power I must add, of telling a story. — Antonio Damasio Copy Share
I got interested in the emotions after studying patients who had lost the ability to emote and feel under certain circumstances. Many of those… — Antonio Damasio Copy Share
In 'Self Comes to Mind' I pay a lot of attention to simple creatures without brains or minds, because those 'cartooned abstractions of who… — Antonio Damasio Copy Share
Rather than being a luxury, emotions are a very intelligent way of driving an organism toward certain outcomes. — Antonio Damasio Copy Share
Of necessity, the autobiographical self is not just about one individual but about all the others that an individual interacts with. Of necessity, it… — Antonio Damasio Copy Share
A self that is very robust, that has many, many levels of organization, from simple to complex, and that functions as a sort of… — Antonio Damasio Copy Share
A mind is so closely shaped by the body and destined to serve it that only one mind could possibly arise in it. No… — Antonio Damasio Copy Share
When you deal with something like compassion for physical pain, which we know is very, very old in evolution - we can find evidence… — Antonio Damasio Copy Share
You can be highly concentrated on a person, on a problem, and be so good at excluding all other material that that becomes not… — Antonio Damasio Copy Share
We may express them [emotions] physically slightly differently, and it's of course graded depending on the circumstance, but the essence of the process is… — Antonio Damasio Copy Share
The autobiographical self is built on the basis of past memories and memories of the plans that we have made; it's the lived past… — Antonio Damasio Copy Share
It's very interesting to think about the distinction with mind, which I just made in very general terms, but it can be made more… — Antonio Damasio Copy Share
What happens [in a coma] is that you lose the grounding of the self, you no longer have access to any feeling of your… — Antonio Damasio Copy Share
All of that is constantly operating when you not only learn, but when you recall. But as you recall in a different light, the… — Antonio Damasio Copy Share
![“We may express them [emotions] physically slightly differently, and it's of course graded depending on the circumstance, but the essence of the process is going to be the same, unless one of us is not quite well put together and is missing something, otherwise it's going to be the same.” quote by Antonio Damasio](https://sms4smile.com/q/img-quotes/461/antonio-damasio-9144_circumstances_we-may-express-them-emotions-physically_245207.png)
