BS 189 Antonio Damasio, author of "Feeling and Knowing"
Brain Science with Ginger Campbell, MD: Neuroscience for Everyone
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The Nervous System Is Not Enough to Create Mental Experiences
The nervous system is not enough to create mental experiences. We need it, but it's not enough. So is the thing that we need besides the nervous system? I'm guessing from everything you've said so far, it is the body in all its aspects. And it is very fundamentally this sort of inaugural event in the world of consciousness - feeling our own conditions of life. What is beautiful about feel is that, remember when we talked about bacteria, y can perfectly imagine bacterio in a setting where there would be little nourishment,. and there would be the wrong temperature.
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