A Sense of Being, Sensing, Sentience and So On.

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The actress julian moore ain, a kind of a sidewalk exhibition where a passers by could draw out of a hat a little slip of paper that has a different emotion on it, and then she would just snap right into it. And you think it's us, like, oh, my god, she's really mad at me. You know, just completely a, i don't know what you'd say, just kind of living the actual emotion, embodying it. So let me, you use a lot of terms in the book. Let me just rattle off some of these: sensing, minding, feeling, being, knowing, mind, consciousness, sentience and

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.