We are not thinking machines that feel; rather, we are feeling machines that think. — Antonio Damasio Copy Share Image
It's very interesting to think about the distinction with mind, which I just made in very general terms, but it can be… — 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
People who are great thinkers, in science or in art, people who are great performers, have to have that kind of capacity.… — Antonio Damasio Copy Share Image
I believe that it is made out of the same cloth of mind, but it is an add-on, it was something that… — 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
There's something that intervenes and is very important which has to do with value. Value in the true biological sense, which is… — 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
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
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