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From feeling to knowing with Antonio Damasio

The Decision Corner

CHAPTER

Feeling Is the Initiation of Consciousness

Feeling is about knowledge, and its presenting knowledge to a nervous system that is also, as by now, other kinds of knowledge. Why is it in the form of feeling? Well, because feeling relates to your body. Is naturally about the body. It's a particular kind of knowledge that is good to allow i to there's a lot there to unpack. You are conscious when you know and when you refer that knowledge to yourself, to your organism. Your gain is not just sensing, it sensing, but sensing with knowledge about what sgoing on. And that knowledge is in the formof feeling. The next word that you want to put in this chain is consciousnness -

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