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Descartes' Error - Emotion, Reason, and the Human Brain (Paperback)
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Descartes' Error - Emotion, Reason, and the Human Brain (Paperback)
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"Although I cannot tell for certain what sparked my interest in the
neural underpinnings of reason, I do know when I became convinced
that the traditional views on the nature of rationality could not
be correct". Thus begins a book that takes the reader on a journey
of discovery, from the story of Phineas Gage, the famous
nineteenth-century case of behavioral change that followed brain
damage, to the contemporary recreation of Gage's brain; and from
the doubts of a young neurologist to a testable hypothesis
concerning the emotions and their fundamental role in rational
human behavior. Drawing on his experiences with neurological
patients affected by brain damage (his laboratory is recognized
worldwide as the foremost center for the study of such patients),
Antonio Damasio shows how the absence of emotion and feeling can
break down rationality. In the course of explaining how emotions
and feelings contribute to reason and to adaptive social behavior,
Damasio also offers a novel perspective on what emotions and
feelings actually are: a direct sensing of our own body states, a
link between the body and its survival-oriented regulations, on the
one hand, and consciousness, on the other. Descartes' Error leads
us to conclude that human organisms are endowed from the very
beginning with a spirited passion for making choices, which the
social mind can use to build rational behavior.
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