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#83: Origins of the Mind - Antonio Damasio, MD, PhD

The FitMind Podcast: Mental Fitness, Neuroscience & Psychology

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Consciousness and Feelings

Feelings are the beginning of consciousness. Consciousness started when we started having feelings that told us that we were hungry or thirsty, ol that we were in pain. That's why feeling is so, so fundamental. It is your base. You start with feeling when you have organisms that are complex enough to require a nervous system. And that nervous system needs to run the controls of this organism otherwise you're just going to die,. and else why it's there.

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