The Strange Order of Things, by Os Secto

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This one, i feel, is like more of a meditative reverie on making minds conscious. There are very interesting hints that are dropped quietly, not to upset anybody who is not caring for exact data. But i always like the idea of reducing and doing something poetic in the hi co sense,. That was really the thrust behind it. I read it twice, once in audio, n injusta in the in the beautiful, little, a hard back edition herethat i think of.

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.