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Descartes' Error: Emotion, Reason and the Human Brain
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Pioneering scientist Damasio's international reputation is based on his explorations into the neurology of vision, memory, and language. His influence will extend far beyond the parameters of the scientific community with this marvelously lucid and engaging presentation of his innovative ideas about the interconnectedness of mind and body. Damasio begins with some dramatic case histories of people who have survived brain damage without severe physical impairment only to experience bizarre degradations of personality and thought processes. He explains these puzzling maladies by analyzing the various systems at work in the brain, from those associated with life support to the highest echelon of cognition. After discussing how emotions and feelings are expressed by the bodypounding heart, trembling hands, blushingDamasio launches into one of his main themes: how essential emotions are to our ability to reason and make decisions. As he illuminates numerous ways the body and the mind work together to process stimuli, draw upon memory, and fuel thought and judgment, Damasio convinces us that the self is a perpetually recreated neurobiological state. Descartes' error, then, was his belief that the mind and body are separate entities. On the contrary, Damasio tells us, their continual collaboration is the key to consciousness and individuality. Donna Seaman
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Few neuroscientists today would defend Cartesian dualism--the idea that mind and body are separate--but Damasio takes one more leap: Not only are philosophers wrong to separate brain and body, but psychology's separation of reason from emotion is also wrong. Most neuroscientists agree that what we call the mind reflects the functions of the nervous system--in short, crudely speaking, the body. Modern science, however, has transferred the old mind- body split into a brain-body dichotomy in which the brain occupies a hierarchically privileged place. But Damasio (Neurology/Univ. of Iowa College of Medicine) democratizes the relationship between brain and body; he posits a powerful interdependence in which our physical experience of the world around us is central to the creation of our sense of self, and colors our behavior. His persuasive argument begins with Phineas Gage, a 19th-century railway worker who suffered brain damage when an iron rod shot through his head like a missile, destroying his left eye and parts of his frontal lobes. The result was not a loss of speech or memory but profound personality and emotional changes and an inability to make rational judgments about the present and future. Damasio and his wife, Hanna, have studied patients with similar frontal-lobe damage and similar effects: IQ, memory, and language are intact, but there is a lack of feeling and an inability to put current events in context and make future judgments. These points are eloquently expressed, along with the anatomical/physiological evidence linking the frontal cortices with sensory-motor areas and emotional networks that feed forward and backward from the body surface and internal organs. Damasio is the first to admit that he cannot prove all he says. In the meantime, one can read with pleasure and share the excitement of a neuroscientist who sees that in the union of the many parts of the human brain lies its strength. (Quality Paperback Book Club alternate selection; Library of Science main selection) -- Copyright ©1994, Kirkus Associates, LP. All rights reserved.
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As one that has always felt that the Western philosophy that the mind is separate from the body was extremely out of place with the way in which the world worked, this book became the final beam in the bridge to my conclusion. The author goes into very thorough arguments and events that support his hypothesis that "The mind is the captive audience of the body." Having first come across the idea that logic stemmed from emotions and could not be separated courtesy of Marti Kheel, this was a wonderful way to follow up on the theory and provided an even better case for it.The idea that we as humans can be separate from our emotional selves and our environment, distance ourselves from the physical world is an outdated idea brought about at the advent of the scientific era, and it has finally come time to correct this way of thinking in order to bring the Western world back into a healthy, whole way of regarding themselves and their bodies. This book could quite possibly be the major turning point in such a philosophical revolution.
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Damasio brings some some fascinating cases to bear on one of the oldest problems in philosophy and psychology. It's a good read and an important subject. It would be a mistake, however, to think that "Descartes' error" was just now being pointed out. In fact, practically no contemporary philosopher worth his or her salt subscribes to the Cartesian two-substance theory of body and mind. In his 1949 masterpiece, The Concept of Mind, Gilbert Ryle argued that Descartes' view was fatally flawed (and he wasn't really the first to point this out, either), and called it the "ghost in the machine" view of the body/mind relationship. If you get right down to it, Descartes himself would agree with Damasio that the emotions are not radically different kinds of things from the reasoning faculties, since he believed that experiencing an emotion was simply another mode of thought, just as drawing an inference is a mode of thought. But Descartes must be used to being a whipping boy by now, 350 years after his death; and the historical perspective aside, Damasio's book is an excellent contribution to scholarship on the effects of emotion on rationality.
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It is interesting to hear a scientist talk about emotions having value. This is good approach to complex issue that may never be resolved. Question will always remain, what lies beneath the facts, and can we ever be sure that we didn't alter reality by studying it. Good for people to see into some research that talks of emotions as worthwhile in ever expanding one world order and monochrome lifestyles. Maybe the best foot in the door to introducing joy into your life and those of others (and sorrow and other emotions),
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Not for the lay-person
Half of this book is really interesting for the layperson who doesn't know much about the workings of the brain. The other half is for people who have studied it extensively. Lesen Sie weiter...
Veröffentlicht am 8. September 2001 von ^holly@witty.com
A review of the reviewers
Except for a couple of the customer reviews i found the rest of them to be written by a collection of half-wit philosopher would be's. Lesen Sie weiter...
Am 10. Juni 2000 veröffentlicht
Book "Yes"; Audio "No!"ÿ
This is an obviously important book. The author has developed a solid, profound argument for the key role emotion plays in affecting reason. Lesen Sie weiter...
Veröffentlicht am 24. Dezember 1999 von William R. Toddmancillas
Delivers on its claims
I thought the book was splendid and did me a world of help in understanding just how important the brain as an organ is to understanding how we experience the world. Lesen Sie weiter...
Am 29. September 1999 veröffentlicht
A fine examination of Descartes - with one problem.
An excellent synopsis of the fundamental errors made in distinguishing "emotion" from "reason. Lesen Sie weiter...
Am 21. August 1999 veröffentlicht
promising prospects for the somantic-marker hypothesis
The somantic marker hypothesis in this book shows alot of intrest in my view. After reading i have never looked at thinking in 'rationality' in the same light. Lesen Sie weiter...
Am 4. Juni 1999 veröffentlicht
A reader from Saint Louis
Descartes' Error is a masterpiece work, summary of many years of intense research in one of the most challenging areas of the science: human behavior. Lesen Sie weiter...
Am 26. April 1999 veröffentlicht
Describes the workings of the mind.
Descartes' Error explains the workings of the brain in biological terms. The components of the brain, how they function, and how they effect the entire human body are discussed. Lesen Sie weiter...
Am 17. Januar 1999 veröffentlicht
"Descartes' Error" is clear, thought provoking and enjoyable
Antonio Damasio has a clear concise style that makes the great deal of information he presents quite enjoyable to read. Lesen Sie weiter...
Am 24. Oktober 1998 veröffentlicht
We are intelligent because we are emotional beings
In this brilliant, enjoyable book, Damasio demonstrates how being "rational" isn't equivalent to being intelligent. Lesen Sie weiter...
Veröffentlicht am 23. August 1998 von pandre@mit.edu
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