Consciousness begins when brains acquire the power, the simple power I must add, of telling a story. — 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… — 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… — 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… — Antonio Damasio Copy Share Image
What happens [in a coma] is that you lose the grounding of the self, you no longer have access to any feeling… — Antonio Damasio Copy Share Image
You still have only one self and one identity. However, self, identity and personality are not things, they are not objects, and… — 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
We are not passive exhibitors of visual or auditory or tactile images. We have selves. We have a Me that is automatically… — Antonio Damasio Copy Share Image
How can you have this reference point, this stability, that is required to maintain the continuity of selves day after day? — Antonio Damasio Copy Share Image
We all woke up this morning and we had with it the amazing return of our conscious mind. We recovered minds with… — Antonio Damasio Copy Share Image
There are ways in which you can make that distinction objective to a certain degree. For example, by looking at responses that… — Antonio Damasio Copy Share Image
Scott Fitzgerald said famously that 'he who invented consciousness would have a lot to be blamed for.' But he also forgot that… — 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
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
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
More may have been learned about the brain and the mind in the 1990s - the so-called decade of the brain -… — 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
The autobiographical self has prompted extended memory, reasoning, imagination, creativity and language. And out of that came the instruments of culture -… — Antonio Damasio Copy Share Image
We remove ourselves from the experience itself to a surrogate of the experience, which is whatever measure you take from the brain,… — 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
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