221. Antonio Damasio — Feeling & Knowing: Making Minds Conscious
The Michael Shermer Show
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What Do You Think About When You Watch a Movie?
You are constantly being dominated, either by the intellectual interest of a certain moment. We can have around 30 people in a meeting and we're discussing on particular finding. That's what dominates the consciousness of that moment for the people making the discussion. It's not about feeling well or not feeling well, not about whether the sun is shining or it's pouring with rain. So there's this amazing elasticity. When we watch a movi or when we watch a play, even if they're exceptional, what wee sing is a particular collection of choices that the playwright, of a fill maker, made about a particular story. But its is particula. It's it's rigid and it
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