How to Reafy the Mind Out of Behavior

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i was writing the believing brain. I kind of addressed this problem of of language. And as you know, behavior ist just say, you don't know what's going on inside the skull. All we see is actions, behaviors, the behavior of the organism. So when you're using language like h lighti again, these these words like feeling, knowing, consciousness, sensing emotion. So an am, i mean, how do you know what’s going on? I guess brain scans or what not. But again, we're observing, as you said, emotions are acting. It's kind of an act. Ultimately, that's what what we know. What we are

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.