We are not thinking machines that feel; rather, we are feeling machines that think. — 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
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
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
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
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
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
![“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 going to be the same, unless one of us is not quite well put together and is missing something, otherwise it's going to be the same.” quote by Antonio Damasio](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/img-quotes/461/antonio-damasio-9144_circumstances_we-may-express-them-emotions-physically_245207.jpg)
