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Antonio Damasio
Antonio Damasio
Portuguese Scientist
Born: Feb 25, 1944
Because Body Brain Life Mind You
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Consciousness permits us to develop the instruments of culture - morality and justice, religion, art, economics and politics, science and technology. Those instruments allow us some measure of freedom in the confrontation with nature. Antonio Damasio
Politics Art Freedom Nature Religion Technology Justice Science Culture Economics Science And Technology Those Some Morality Allow Develop Instruments Permits Confrontation Us Measure Consciousness
Rather than being a luxury, emotions are a very intelligent way of driving an organism toward certain outcomes. Antonio Damasio
Emotions Luxury Way Outcomes Rather Driving Toward Very Intelligent Than Being Certain Organism
When we talk about emotion, we really talk about a collection of behaviors that are produced by the brain. You can look at a person in the throes of an emotion and observe changes in the face, in the body posture, in the coloration of the skin and so on. Antonio Damasio
You Face Skin Changes Collection About Posture Emotion Observe Look Talk Brain Person Behaviors Produced Really Body
To me, body and mind are different aspects of specific biological processes. Antonio Damasio
Me Mind Different Processes Body Aspects Specific Biological
I got interested in the emotions after studying patients who had lost the ability to emote and feel under certain circumstances. Many of those patients also had major impairments in their ability to make decisions. Antonio Damasio
Emotions Lost Those Circumstances Ability Emote Had Feel Studying Major Also Make Got Patients After Decisions Interested Certain Who Many
We do not merely perceive objects and hold thoughts in our minds: all our perceptions and thought processes are felt. All have a distinctive component that announces an unequivocal link between images and the existence of life in our organism. Antonio Damasio
Life Thoughts Thought Our Minds Distinctive Component Perceive Objects Perceptions Merely Between Felt Existence Link Unequivocal Hold Processes Organism Images
In 'Self Comes to Mind' I pay a lot of attention to simple creatures without brains or minds, because those 'cartooned abstractions of who we are' operate on precisely the same principles that we do. Antonio Damasio
Simple Mind Pay Minds Those Self Abstraction Attention Operate Principles Because Without Lot Brains Same Precisely Who Creatures
Interestingly enough, not all feelings result from the body's reaction to external stimuli. Sometimes changes are purely simulated in the brain maps. Antonio Damasio
Result Sometimes Feelings Changes Enough Purely Simulated Reaction Stimuli Brain Interestingly Body Maps External
Consciousness, much like our feelings, is based on a representation of the body and how it changes when reacting to certain stimuli. Self-image would be unthinkable without this representation. Antonio Damasio
Feelings Changes Our Would Would-Be Like Unthinkable Reacting Self-Image Without How Stimuli Representation Much Certain Body Based Consciousness
When you deal with something like compassion for physical pain, which we know is very, very old in evolution - we can find evidence for it in nonhuman species - the brain processes it at a faster speed. Compassion for mental pain took many seconds longer. Antonio Damasio
You Old Compassion Pain Faster Speed Took Seconds Evidence Evolution Find Physical Mental Physical Pain Something Longer Like Know Deal Brain Very Which Processes Many Species
The problem that we, as living organisms, face - and not we only, humans, but any living organism faces - is the management of life. Antonio Damasio
Life Management Problem Face Living Faces Only Any Organism Organisms Living Organisms Humans
Of necessity, the autobiographical self is not just about one individual but about all the others that an individual interacts with. Of necessity, it incorporates the culture in which the interactions took place. Antonio Damasio
Culture Others Took About Individual Self Autobiographical Just Interactions Place Which Necessity
For pure joy, I look at a small painting by Arbit Blatas. An ocean liner is at the center of the composition, perhaps ready to depart. It holds the promise of discovery. Antonio Damasio
Joy Pure Ocean Painting Promise Pure Joy Composition Small Perhaps Look Ready Discovery Depart Center Holds
I cannot listen to Beethoven or Mahler or Chopin or Bach when I write because those composers require you stop what you are doing and listen. Antonio Damasio
You Bach Those Composers Mahler Write Because Doing Beethoven Listen Stop Cannot Require Chopin

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