"Of necessity, the autobiographical self is not just……" — 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 incorporates the culture in which the interactions took place."
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35 Quotes by Antonio Damasio
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When you experience the emotion of sadness, there will be changes in facial expression, and your body will be closed…
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The mechanism of primary emotions does not describe the full range of emotional behaviors. They are, to be sure, the…
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Consciousness permits us to develop the instruments of culture - morality and justice, religion, art, economics and politics, science and…
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A conscious mind is a mind with a self in it.
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How can you have this reference point, this stability, that is required to maintain the continuity of selves day after…
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Scott Fitzgerald said famously that 'he who invented consciousness would have a lot to be blamed for.' But he also…
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The autobiographical self has prompted extended memory, reasoning, imagination, creativity and language. And out of that came the instruments of…
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The autobiographical self is built on the basis of past memories and memories of the plans that we have made;…
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We are not passive exhibitors of visual or auditory or tactile images. We have selves. We have a Me that…
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What happens [in a coma] is that you lose the grounding of the self, you no longer have access to…
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We are not thinking machines that feel; rather, we are feeling machines that think.
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