Fall Quote by Antonio Damasio

“You can be highly concentrated on a person, on a problem, and be so good at excluding all other material that that becomes not just the focus of your experience, but practically the sole content of your experience, everything else falling by the wayside.”

Antonio Damasio

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Rather than being a luxury, emotions are a very intelligent way of driving an organism toward certain outcomes.

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Of necessity, the autobiographical self is not just about one individual but about all the others that an individual interacts with. Of necessity, it…

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A self that is very robust, that has many, many levels of organization, from simple to complex, and that functions as a sort of…

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A mind is so closely shaped by the body and destined to serve it that only one mind could possibly arise in it. No…

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When you deal with something like compassion for physical pain, which we know is very, very old in evolution - we can find evidence…

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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…

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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…

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