"There is no such thing as a disembodied……" — Antonio Damasio

"There is no such thing as a disembodied mind. The mind is implanted in the brain, and the brain is implanted in the body."

— Antonio Damasio

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35 Quotes by Antonio Damasio

Antonio Damasio has 35 quotes on this site. A few more worth reading:

When you experience the emotion of sadness, there will be changes in facial expression, and your body will be closed…
The mechanism of primary emotions does not describe the full range of emotional behaviors. They are, to be sure, the…
More may have been learned about the brain and the mind in the 1990s - the so-called decade of the…
Consciousness permits us to develop the instruments of culture - morality and justice, religion, art, economics and politics, science and…
A conscious mind is a mind with a self in it.
How can you have this reference point, this stability, that is required to maintain the continuity of selves day after…
Scott Fitzgerald said famously that 'he who invented consciousness would have a lot to be blamed for.' But he also…
The autobiographical self has prompted extended memory, reasoning, imagination, creativity and language. And out of that came the instruments of…
The autobiographical self is built on the basis of past memories and memories of the plans that we have made;…
We are not passive exhibitors of visual or auditory or tactile images. We have selves. We have a Me that…
What happens [in a coma] is that you lose the grounding of the self, you no longer have access to…
We are not thinking machines that feel; rather, we are feeling machines that think.

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Nothing we use or hear or touch can be expressed in words that equal what is given by the senses. — Hannah Arendt
Love is composed of a single soul inhabiting two bodies. — Aristotle
Friendship is a single soul dwelling in two bodies. — Aristotle
We must no more ask whether the soul and body are one than ask whether the wax and the figure… — Aristotle
If you read quickly to get through a poem to what it means, you have missed the body of the… — M H Abrams
Whatever man uses without the fear of God, whatever he applies to the mere gratifying of his flesh, cannot fail… — Johann Arndt
Every one knows, that the mind will not be kept from contemplating what it loves in the midst of crowds… — Mary Astell
The last four or five hundred years of European contact with Africa produced a body of literature that presented Africa… — Chinua Achebe
Perception is reality. — Lee Atwater
I wish I had eight pairs of hands, and another body to shoot the specimens. — John James Audubon
If I can procure three hundred good substantial names of persons, or bodies, or institutions, I cannot fail to do… — John James Audubon
Our bodies are shaped to bear children, and our lives are a working out of the processes of creation. All… — Saint Augustine

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