Antonio Damasio's Self Comes to Mind: Constructing the Conscious Brain PDF

By Antonio Damasio

Winner of the CORINE foreign ebook Award 2011

From probably the most vital neuroscientists at paintings at the present time, a path-breaking research of a query that has confounded neurologists, philosophers, cognitive scientists and psychologists for hundreds of years: how is attention created?

Antonio Damasio has spent the earlier thirty years learning and writing approximately how the mind operates, and his paintings has garnered approval for its singular melding of the clinical and the humanistic. In Self involves Mind, he is going opposed to the long-standing concept that attention is by some means become independent from the physique, offering compelling new medical facts that attention - what we predict of as a brain with a self - is actually a organic procedure created through a dwelling organism.

The result's a groundbreaking investigative trip into the neurobiological foundations of brain and self.

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