Brain Science with Ginger Campbell, MD: Neuroscience for Everyone BS 189 Antonio Damasio, author of "Feeling and Knowing"
Oct 29, 2021
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Mind Requires Body Interaction
- Antonio Damasio argues minds can't be explained by the nervous system alone and must include the body where the nervous system operates.
- He emphasizes feelings as bodily processes central to consciousness and life regulation.
Feelings Are Deeply Bodily
- Damasio emphasizes that feelings are thoroughly bodily and cannot be explained solely by cortical processes.
- He argues interoception and body-nervous commingling are central to feeling's nature.
Patient Observations Shaped The Theory
- Damasio recounts that his ideas came from observing life and were later shaped by studying patients with impaired affect.
- Patient observations convinced him feelings influence decision-making and motivated experimental studies.