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These new methods are not without rigor, though. Damasio and his colleagues examine patients with disruptions and interruptions in consciousness and take deep insights from these tragic lives while offering greater comfort and meaning to the sufferers. His thesis, that our sense of self arises from our need to map relations between self and others, is firmly rooted in medical and evolutionary research but stands up well to self-examination. His examples from the weird world of neurology are unsettling yet deeply humanizing--real people with serious problems spring to life in the pages, but they are never reduced to their deficits. The Feeling of What Happens captures the spirit of discovery as it plunges deeper than ever into the darkest waters yet. --Rob Lightner -- Dieser Text bezieht sich auf eine vergriffene oder nicht verfügbare Ausgabe dieses Titels.
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An eye-opener!,
Rezension bezieht sich auf: The Feeling of What Happens: Body and Emotion in the Making of Consciousness (Gebundene Ausgabe)
The great value of Damasio's book is that it is written by an expert, but with a general audience very much in view. Damasio is both an experienced practicing psychiatrist and a neurological researcher of considerable standing. I am myself a linguist, and have tried my hand at reaching the general public in a book (in Swedish) on Language and the Brain. That has at least made me realize how difficult it is to make intelligible the biological base of such abstract structures as human language and human thought. On this score I think Damasio succeeds excellently. He may not have the philosophical breadth of Daniel Dennett, or the research brilliance of Nobel laureate Gerald Edelman -- both of them referred to by Damasio. But he achieves a rare balance between clinical experience and sound scientific argument. Whereas most philosophers, since Plato and Aristotle, have laid stress on the connection between consciousness and the very highest functions of the mind -- foresight, logical thinking, creative imagination -- Damasio highlights its humble roots in the body, its connection with feelings and emotions which we share with other animals, as Darwin showed in his treatise on The Expression of Emotions in Men and Animals. This basic "core consciousness", as Damasio terms it, arises from the brain's ability to connect and relate its representations of aspects of the outer world -- objects -- with its continuous representations of the inner world of the organism. This is the foundation of the concept of self, which eventually will incorporate all of the organism's experiences throughout its life: the "autobiographical self". Throughout, Damasio explains how such representations can be identified in the brain. Typically each representation is distributed over many brain structures, not, as the 19th century phrenologist thought, one place for each. In the same way, the second or third order representation of the self is not to be found in one single spot (the pineal gland, as Descartes thought). There is no "homunculus" in the brain, no central representation of a little man, a "ghost in the machine", to use the Oxford philosopher Gilbert Ryle's term back in the 1940s. Damasio does not shun the anatomical and physiological details. He sometimes goes into great detail, which the ordinary reader will find quite demanding. However, the main point about the biological base of consciousness, is never left out of sight, and will whet the appetite for a second or third reading of a rich and rewarding book.
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An objective study of subjectivity,
Von Bertrand Ducharme (Quebec, Canada) - Alle meine Rezensionen ansehen
Rezension bezieht sich auf: The Feeling of What Happens: Body and Emotion in the Making of Consciousness (Gebundene Ausgabe)
I much appreciated reading Damasio's book. First and for most because Damasio's study logically combines objective neurologic facts with rigorous introspective analysis. At last, «hard» science can be profitably put to work to tackle global subjective problems. Damasio seems to be at the forefront of this relatively new trend. And his book is a good reference point to help any serious reader to think about the way consciousness works.Brain injuries mentioned in the book show that, contrary to widespread belief, consciousness does not originate in the cortex, or in a «higher» human faculty; it originates in the more primitive areas of the brain. Damasio stresses that it is a fact, not an hypothesis, independantly of what we may think of his thesis exposed in the book. The core of his thesis is that consciousness originates from the internal representation of perceived modifications to the body (to the «proto-self» ) caused by perceived external objects interacting with the body during that time. We become conscious of ourselves, of the external objects and of the interaction between the two at the same time. Even if most of the time, the language used is very easy to understand, I had difficulties grasping his multi-levels concepts about the self and about consciousness. At first they seemed to me badly defined and arbitrary. But further attentive reading, further exposure to the neurological facts put forward by Damasio and further thinking made me see the reasons behind those concepts. However, I still think that Damasio's notion of the self is a too passive one. He doesn't emphasize the essential role of the «inner drive» of the body (instincts, impulses, basic desires, etc.) in the making of consciousness. It seems to me that the concrete feeling of that basic inner drive is a unifying whole in front of the external world and objects. It is much more concrete and real than any other internal representation of our own body. It is that drive that made us (as babies) interact in the first place with external objects, experience with them and distinguish them from us. So, it surely must have a central role to play in the process of consciousness, maybe taking the place of Damasio's more general «proto-self». Anyway, Damasio's book is a great one that made me think a lot and put order in my own thoughts. He is a courageous scientist trying to explain objectively what is going on subjectively. He is upgrading with the newest science what great thinkers like Hegel and Piaget had been doing (in other fields of knowledge). Helfen Sie anderen Kunden bei der Suche nach den hilfreichsten Rezensionen
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Old Wine in Old Skins,
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Rezension bezieht sich auf: The Feeling of What Happens: Body and Emotion in the Making of Consciousness (Gebundene Ausgabe)
Everybody knows that Damasio is brilliant, just ask him. His most recent book has many interesting ideas, but this particular volume counts heavily on previously recorded case histories of his (as far back as the early 80s) and other peoples work (as far back as the 19th century) for which he takes too much contemporary credit. 75% of content is already known to neuroscientists. The writing is too convoluted to be readable by my mother-in-law. Non-neuroscientists with BA degrees or higher and a philosophical inclination are likely to like the book best.
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