Self Comes to Mind: Constructing the Conscious Brain

  • Antonio Damasio | University of Southern California’s Brain and Creativity Institute

It is time to debunk the long standing idea that consciousness is somehow separate from the body, as we look at astounding new evidence that proves it is, in fact a biological process created by the brain. Aside from the three traditional perspectives we use to study the mind (the personal, the behavioral and the neurological), we can now use the evolutionary perspective, which entails a radical change in the way the history of conscious minds is told.

Speaker Details

Antonio Damasio is the director of the University of Southern California’s Brain and Creativity Institute. His earlier books include Descartes’ Error: Emotion, Reason and the Human Brain; The Feeling of What Happens: Body and Emotion in the Making of Consciousness and Looking for Spinoza: Joy, Sorrow and the Feeling Brain.

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