Feeling and Knowing

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In living creatures that preceded me, once they had nervous systen they knew how they felt. So if i have the experience of being here, sitting at this desk, talking to you, michael, that is very critical as the core of my consciousness. Now what is interesting is that this complicated thing now that allows me to know that iam here in the michael sherman show, and i'm talking to you could be an ages ago. And pain is betraying the fact that the cellular structure, the cell the tissues, have been damaged. And is is that becoming known in your mind? It really is something that emerges very soon.

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.