All of that is constantly operating when you not only learn, but when you recall. But as you recall in a different… — 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
To me, body and mind are different aspects of specific biological processes. — Antonio Damasio Copy Share Image
I think it's possible to a certain extent to make those comparisons. The problem is the detail with which the comparison can… — Antonio Damasio Copy Share Image
You know, mind allows us to portray in different sensory modalities, visual, auditory, olfactory, you name it, what we are like and… — 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
But whether we want to do it because we want to have people to have a different idea of who we are… — Antonio Damasio Copy Share Image
I think it's reasonable to say that even thought, in all likelihood, we have slightly different experiences of reality, they are similar… — Antonio Damasio Copy Share Image
If something produces an undue amount of pleasure or undue amount of displeasure, it's going to be judged differently and it's going… — 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