All Antonio Damasio Quotes
- When you experience the emotion of sadness, there will be changes in facial expression, and your body will be closed in, withdrawn. There are also… Body
- The mechanism of primary emotions does not describe the full range of emotional behaviors. They are, to be sure, the basic mechanism. However, I believe… Basic
- More may have been learned about the brain and the mind in the 1990s - the so-called decade of the brain - than during the… Been
- Consciousness permits us to develop the instruments of culture - morality and justice, religion, art, economics and politics, science and technology. Those instruments allow us… Allow
- A conscious mind is a mind with a self in it. Brain
- How can you have this reference point, this stability, that is required to maintain the continuity of selves day after day? Brain
- Scott Fitzgerald said famously that 'he who invented consciousness would have a lot to be blamed for.' But he also forgot that without consciousness, he… Access
- The autobiographical self has prompted extended memory, reasoning, imagination, creativity and language. And out of that came the instruments of culture - religions, justice, trade,… Art
- 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 and… Anticipated
- 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… Auditory
- What happens [in a coma] is that you lose the grounding of the self, you no longer have access to any feeling of your own… Access
- We are not thinking machines that feel; rather, we are feeling machines that think. Feel
- A mind is so closely shaped by the body and destined to serve it that only one mind could possibly arise in it. No body,… Arise
- Emotions are enmeshed in the neural networks of reason. Emotion
- Imagine, for example, birds. When they look out at the world, they have a sense that they are alive. If they are in pain, they… Alive
- I cannot listen to Beethoven or Mahler or Chopin or Bach when I write because those composers require you stop what you are doing and… Bach
- Some of us, for better or worse, develop very stable, consistent, and largely predictable machineries of self. But in others, the self machinery is more… Better
- ...I sense that stepping into the light is also a powerful metaphor for consciousness, for the birth of the knowing mind, for the simple and… Birth
- Leaving out appraisal also would render the biological description of the phenomena of emotion vulnerable to the caricature that emotions without an appraisal phase are… Amazingly
- We all woke up this morning and we had with it the amazing return of our conscious mind. We recovered minds with a complete sense… All
- We do not merely perceive objects and hold thoughts in our minds: all our perceptions and thought processes are felt. All have a distinctive component… All
- Why do we have a brain in the first place? Not to write books, articles, or plays; not to do science or play music. Brains… Articles
- I continue to be fascinated by the fact that feelings are not just the shady side of reason but that they help us to reach… Continue
- To me, body and mind are different aspects of specific biological processes. Aspects
- Consciousness, much like our feelings, is based on a representation of the body and how it changes when reacting to certain stimuli. Self-image would be… Based