(P/B) SELF COMES TO MIND

Παρουσίαση

A profound and groundbreaking new book telling the story of consciousness and the human mind, from one of the world's leading neuroscientists.
Winner of the CORINE International Book Award 2011.

From one of the most important neuroscientists at work today, a path-breaking investigation of a question that has confounded neurologists, philosophers, cognitive scientists and psychologists for centuries: how is consciousness created?
Antonio Damasio has spent the past thirty years studying and writing about how the brain operates, and his work has garnered acclaim for its singular melding of the scientific and the humanistic. In Self Comes to Mind, he goes against the long-standing idea that consciousness is somehow separate from the body, presenting compelling new scientific evidence that consciousness - what we think of as a mind with a self - is in fact a biological process created by a living organism.
The result is a groundbreaking investigative journey into the neurobiological foundations of mind and self. (From the publisher)

Περιεχόμενα

STARTING OVER
Awakening
From life regulation to biological value
WHAT'S IN A BRAIN THAT A MIND CAN BE?
Making maps and making images
The body in mind
Emotions and feelings
An architecture for memory
BEING CONSCIOUS
Consciousness observed
Building a conscious mind
The autobiographical self
Putting it together
LONG AFTER CONSCIOUSNESS
Living with consciousness
Appendix
Notes
Acknowledgments
Index