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> [Interestingly enough, not all feelings result from the body's reaction to external stimuli. Sometimes changes are purely simulated in the brain maps.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/antonio-damasio/interestingly-enough-not-all-feelings-result-from-the-body-s-reaction/)

[Antonio Damasio](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/antonio-damasio/)

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> [When we talk about emotion, we really talk about a collection of behaviors that are produced by the brain. You can look…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/antonio-damasio/when-we-talk-about-emotion-we-really-talk-about-a-collection-of/)

[Antonio Damasio](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/antonio-damasio/)

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> [Consciousness, much like our feelings, is based on a representation of the body and how it changes when reacting to certain stimuli.…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/antonio-damasio/consciousness-much-like-our-feelings-is-based-on-a-representation-of/)

[Antonio Damasio](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/antonio-damasio/)

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## Other authors on Changes

## More by Antonio Damasio

> [We are not thinking machines that feel; rather, we are feeling machines that think.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/antonio-damasio/we-are-not-thinking-machines-that-feel-rather-we-are-feeling-machines/)

[Antonio Damasio](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/antonio-damasio/)

> [Consciousness begins when brains acquire the power, the simple power I must add, of telling a story.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/antonio-damasio/consciousness-begins-when-brains-acquire-the-power-the-simple-power-i/)

[Antonio Damasio](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/antonio-damasio/)

> [I got interested in the emotions after studying patients who had lost the ability to emote and feel under certain circumstances. Many of those…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/antonio-damasio/i-got-interested-in-the-emotions-after-studying-patients-who-had-lost/)

[Antonio Damasio](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/antonio-damasio/)

> [In 'Self Comes to Mind' I pay a lot of attention to simple creatures without brains or minds, because those 'cartooned abstractions of who…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/antonio-damasio/in-self-comes-to-mind-i-pay-a-lot-of-attention-to-simple-creatures/)

[Antonio Damasio](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/antonio-damasio/)

> [Rather than being a luxury, emotions are a very intelligent way of driving an organism toward certain outcomes.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/antonio-damasio/rather-than-being-a-luxury-emotions-are-a-very-intelligent-way-of/)

[Antonio Damasio](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/antonio-damasio/)

> [Of necessity, the autobiographical self is not just about one individual but about all the others that an individual interacts with. Of necessity, it…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/antonio-damasio/of-necessity-the-autobiographical-self-is-not-just-about-one/)

[Antonio Damasio](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/antonio-damasio/)

> [A self that is very robust, that has many, many levels of organization, from simple to complex, and that functions as a sort of…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/antonio-damasio/a-self-that-is-very-robust-that-has-many-many-levels-of-organization/)

[Antonio Damasio](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/antonio-damasio/)

> [A mind is so closely shaped by the body and destined to serve it that only one mind could possibly arise in it. No…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/antonio-damasio/a-mind-is-so-closely-shaped-by-the-body-and-destined-to-serve-it-that/)

[Antonio Damasio](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/antonio-damasio/)

> [When you deal with something like compassion for physical pain, which we know is very, very old in evolution - we can find evidence…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/antonio-damasio/when-you-deal-with-something-like-compassion-for-physical-pain-which/)

[Antonio Damasio](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/antonio-damasio/)

> [You can be highly concentrated on a person, on a problem, and be so good at excluding all other material that that becomes not…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/antonio-damasio/you-can-be-highly-concentrated-on-a-person-on-a-problem-and-be-so/)

[Antonio Damasio](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/antonio-damasio/)

> [ 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… ](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/antonio-damasio/we-may-express-them-emotions-physically-slightly-differently-and-it-s/)

[Antonio Damasio](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/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 lived past…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/antonio-damasio/the-autobiographical-self-is-built-on-the-basis-of-past-memories-and/)

[Antonio Damasio](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/antonio-damasio/)

> [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…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/antonio-damasio/it-s-very-interesting-to-think-about-the-distinction-with-mind-which/)

[Antonio Damasio](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/antonio-damasio/)

> [ What happens \[in a coma\] is that you lose the grounding of the self, you no longer have access to any feeling of your… ](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/antonio-damasio/what-happens-in-a-coma-is-that-you-lose-the-grounding-of-the-self-you/)

[Antonio Damasio](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/antonio-damasio/)

> [All of that is constantly operating when you not only learn, but when you recall. But as you recall in a different light, the…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/antonio-damasio/all-of-that-is-constantly-operating-when-you-not-only-learn-but-when/)

[Antonio Damasio](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/antonio-damasio/)

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