When the Lights Come On?

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Plants are a primitive form of consciousness, or feeling. They don't have the cells that could do it. There's no possibility in michael is like if you did not have the possibility of taking notes about our conversation. In a way, one simple metaphor for what's going on exactly. You see right now, i'm looking at your face on the screen of my computer, and you're looking at my face. And they represent different colours, different shades, different shapes. But there's nothing in a plant that can do that. The plant doesn't have e thethe the basics, doesn't have the engineering that are necessary to create that. We do through the nervous system

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.