221. Antonio Damasio — Feeling & Knowing: Making Minds Conscious
The Michael Shermer Show
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What Is Homeostasis?
In a way, the acting we're seen on stage or film evokes the emotions in ourselves such that we willingly suspend disbelief. Since you equate emotions with acting, they're acting, and we feel the actions as emotions in our minds. So this is the purpose of emotions, is to get us to act toward homeo s, right? Right? Sayi not surethay, i understand your question. Well, sii, the questions in the book, you go back several billion years and you start talking about,. ok, let's go back to the simplest possible organism. T doesn't have a nervous system, but it's still able to act and move. And so why
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