Feelings Are Like a Continuous Musical Performance

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Feeling is totally about the body. Of course, you can also have feelings about your emotive states. That comes later. But to begin with, feelings are about whether the body is in a state that's compatible with survival and continuation. And very critically, can produce things that we deal with every day without noticing. You don't see this marvel that has been sitting there any second of your life, except when you are very deep in deep asleep, or ina anaesthesia. The only suspension of that state is, as i said, anasthesia. Bythe way's not it is suspension of the conscious state, but it doesn't change life, becauseiif you

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.