221. Antonio Damasio — Feeling & Knowing: Making Minds Conscious
The Michael Shermer Show
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Feelings Are Like a Continuous Musical Performance
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
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