Computer Neural Networks

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We are about vulnerability, the possibility of suffering and the need to self regu. Why should you make a robot vulnerable when the robot is indestructible? It's expressding or our feelings, hunger, thirst, pain, well being. And we better head what conscious feelings are telling us, because if we don't, we get sick and die.

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.