Self Comes To Mind: Constructing The Conscious Brain

Author: Antonio Damasio

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ISBN : 9780099498025
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Publication date : 01 April 2012
Dimensions : 198mm X 129mm
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Explores two questions that have haunted philosophers, neurologists, cognitive scientists and psychologists for centuries: how do brains construct minds, and how do minds become conscious? This work presents scientific evidence that consciousness - what we think of as self - is in fact a biological process created by the brain.

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A profound and groundbreaking new book telling the story of consciousness and the human mind, from one of the world's leading neuroscientists.

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ANTONIO DAMASIO is the director of the University of Southern California's Brain and Creativity Institute. Damasio's books include Descartes' Error: Emotion, Reason, and the Human Brain; The Feeling of What Happens: Body and Emotion in the Making of Consciousness (named one of the ten best books of the year by the New York Times Book Review); and Looking for Spinoza: Joy, Sorrow, and the Feeling Brain. He lives in Los Angeles.

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