A mind is so closely shaped by the body and destined to serve it that only one mind could possibly arise in… — 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you experience the emotion of sadness, there will be changes in facial expression, and your body will be closed in, withdrawn.… — Antonio Damasio Copy Share Image
Interestingly enough, not all feelings result from the body's reaction to external stimuli. Sometimes changes are purely simulated in the brain maps. — Antonio Damasio Copy Share Image
There is no such thing as a disembodied mind. The mind is implanted in the brain, and the brain is implanted in… — 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
To me, body and mind are different aspects of specific biological processes. — 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
Why do we have a brain in the first place? Not to write books, articles, or plays; not to do science or… — Antonio Damasio Copy Share Image
Consciousness, much like our feelings, is based on a representation of the body and how it changes when reacting to certain stimuli.… — Antonio Damasio Copy Share Image
We are not thinking machines that feel; rather, we are feeling machines that think. — Antonio Damasio Copy Share Image
Consciousness begins when brains acquire the power, the simple power I must add, of telling a story. — Antonio Damasio Copy Share Image
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 Image
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 Image
Rather than being a luxury, emotions are a very intelligent way of driving an organism toward certain outcomes. — Antonio Damasio Copy Share Image
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 Image
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 Image
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 Image
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 Image
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 Image
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 Image
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 Image