221. Antonio Damasio — Feeling & Knowing: Making Minds Conscious
The Michael Shermer Show
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Feeling and Knowing
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.
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