Self Comes to Mind: Constructing the Conscious Brain by Damasio, Antonio

Self Comes to Mind: Constructing the Conscious Brain

A leading neuroscientist explores with authority, with imagination, and with unparalleled mastery how the brain constructs the...
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Author: Antonio Damasio
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Self Comes to Mind: Constructing the Conscious Brain by Damasio, Antonio

Self Comes to Mind: Constructing the Conscious Brain

$44.00

Self Comes to Mind: Constructing the Conscious Brain

$44.00
Author: Antonio Damasio
Format: Paperback
Language: English

A leading neuroscientist explores with authority, with imagination, and with unparalleled mastery how the brain constructs the mind and how the brain makes that mind conscious.

Antonio Damasio has spent the past thirty years researching and and revealing how the brain works. Here, in his most ambitious and stunning work yet, he rejects the long-standing idea that consciousness is somehow separate from the body, and presents compelling new scientific evidence that posits an evolutionary perspective. His view entails a radical change in the way the history of the conscious mind is viewed and told, suggesting that the brain's development of a human self is a challenge to nature's indifference. This development helps to open the way for the appearance of culture, perhaps one of our most defining characteristics as thinking and self-aware beings.

Author: Antonio Damasio
Publisher: Vintage
Published: 03/06/2012
Pages: 416
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 0.84lbs
Size: 7.99h x 5.25w x 0.82d
ISBN: 9780307474957

About the Author

Antonio Damasio is University Professor, David Dornsife Professor of Neuroscience, Psychology, and Neurology, and director of the Brain and Creativity Institute at the University of Southern California. Damasio's other books include Descartes' Error; The Feeling of What Happens; and Looking for Spinoza. He has received the Honda Prize, the Prince of Asturias Award for Technical and Scientific Research, and, shared with his wife Hanna, the Pessoa, Signoret, and Cozzarelli prizes. Damasio is a fellow of the Institute of Medicine of the National Academy of Sciences, the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, the Bavarian Academy of Sciences, and the European Academy of Sciences and Arts. He lives in Los Angeles.


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