Brain Quotes by Antonio Damasio

A conscious mind is a mind with a self in it.

— Antonio Damasio

How can you have this reference point, this stability, that is required to maintain the continuity of selves day after day?

— Antonio Damasio

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

We are not passive exhibitors of visual or auditory or tactile images. We have selves. We have a Me that is automatically…

— Antonio Damasio

What happens [in a coma] is that you lose the grounding of the self, you no longer have access to any feeling…

— Antonio Damasio

More may have been learned about the brain and the mind in the 1990s - the so-called decade of the brain -…

— Antonio Damasio

Consciousness begins when brains acquire the power, the simple power I must add, of telling a story.

— Antonio Damasio

There is no such thing as a disembodied mind. The mind is implanted in the brain, and the brain is implanted in…

— Antonio Damasio

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

You still have only one self and one identity. However, self, identity and personality are not things, they are not objects, and…

— Antonio Damasio

Why do we have a brain in the first place? Not to write books, articles, or plays; not to do science or…

— Antonio Damasio

If you have just an emotion, you would not necessarily feel it. To feel an emotion, you need to represent in the…

— Antonio Damasio

When we talk about emotion, we really talk about a collection of behaviors that are produced by the brain. You can look…

— Antonio Damasio

Scott Fitzgerald said famously that 'he who invented consciousness would have a lot to be blamed for.' But he also forgot that…

— Antonio Damasio

There are ways in which you can make that distinction objective to a certain degree. For example, by looking at responses that…

— Antonio Damasio

The autobiographical self has prompted extended memory, reasoning, imagination, creativity and language. And out of that came the instruments of culture -…

— Antonio Damasio

We all woke up this morning and we had with it the amazing return of our conscious mind. We recovered minds with…

— Antonio Damasio

So, you can define emotions very simply as the process of perceiving what is going on in the organs when you are…

— Antonio Damasio

We remove ourselves from the experience itself to a surrogate of the experience, which is whatever measure you take from the brain,…

— Antonio Damasio

In 'Self Comes to Mind' I pay a lot of attention to simple creatures without brains or minds, because those 'cartooned abstractions…

— Antonio Damasio

When you deal with something like compassion for physical pain, which we know is very, very old in evolution - we can…

— Antonio Damasio