"We are not passive exhibitors of visual or……" — Antonio Damasio
"We are not passive exhibitors of visual or auditory or tactile images. We have selves. We have a Me that is automatically present in our minds right now."
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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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More may have been learned about the brain and the mind in the 1990s - the so-called decade of 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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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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A mind is so closely shaped by the body and destined to serve it that only one mind could possibly…
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I'll never forget it. I was starting to hike up the red rocks, and honestly, it was as if I…
— Gwyneth Paltrow
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We in the "developed" world seem to have many auditory strategies that insulate us from the presence of silence, simplicity,…
— Joan Halifax
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The essential function of the (design) profession in our society is to enhance and cultivate communications toward: Easier understanding of…
— Will Burtin
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The auditory perception is not sufficient for our knowledge of the world; it does not have vastness.
— Robert Delaunay
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The health of a nation, a society, can be determined by the art it demands. We have insisted of television…
— Edward Albee
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Just as water, gas, and electricity are brought into our houses from far off to satisfy our needs in response…
— Paul Valery
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Maybe in music you're making an auditory environment and maybe you change your environment around you to suit your own…
— Florence Welch
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The telephone is virtual reality in that you can meet with someone as if you are together, at least for…
— Ray Kurzweil
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I suspect music is auditory cheesecake, an exquisite confection crafted to tickle the sensitive spots of... our mental faculties.
— Steven Pinker
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Art works because it appeals to certain faculties of the mind. Music depends on details of the auditory system, painting…
— Steven Pinker
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Pierce made a calculating noise, accidentally brushing my knee as he shifted. "As Jenks would say, you snore nice." I…
— Kim Harrison
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Given her deafness, the auditory part of the brain, deprived of its usual input, had started to generate a spontaneous…
— Oliver Sacks
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