How Do You Make a Brain?

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Dan O'Brien: Neurons become aware that this is what we're doing, even though no individual neuron has any idea what it's doing exactly. How does that happen? He says when you create representations of represent so you really ascent by making, by making qroton qot, the story more and more clear. Andt a certain point there are representations that contain all the others. They're imbeddedand that's how, that's how we come to make, to make minds and to create this very rich here We're going teomslike en let's say we in from quantitative differences the number of cells in an organism, or the number of nerve cells in

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.