The Complexity of Organisms Without a Nervous System

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When you look at t very simple organisms without nervous system, a lot of the regulation of the life of that organism is done non consciously. But it's not being regulated in a mental sense. That organism does not represent in a mental state that there's a failure of something or that there's plenitude of whatwat you need. And so what is interesting is that only appears when organisms are a more complex, when they are multicellular and their lives lead to be more complicated. Then there's this edding of elements that are for a nervous system. The real key is to say we are conscious when we know about what is going on in our mind. This would be very

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.