What Do You Think About When You Watch a Movie?

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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

In recent decades, many philosophers and cognitive scientists have declared the problem of consciousness unsolvable, but Antonio Damasio is convinced that recent findings across multiple scientific disciplines have given us a way to understand consciousness and its significance for human life. In his latest work, Feeling & Knowing, Damasio helps us understand why being conscious is not the same as sensing, why nervous systems are essential for the development of feelings, and why feeling opens the way to consciousness writ large. He combines the latest discoveries in various sciences with philosophy and discusses his original research, which has transformed our understanding of the brain and human behavior.