Feeling Knowing, Antonio Damasio
Feeling Knowing, Antonio Damasio
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Feeling & Knowing
Making Minds Conscious

Author: Antonio Damasio

Narrator: Julian Morris

Unabridged: 3 hr 10 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Published: 10/26/2021

Synopsis

From one of the world’s leading neuroscientists: a succinct, illuminating, wholly engaging investigation of how biology, neuroscience, psychology, and artificial intelligence have given us the tools to unlock the mysteries of human consciousness

“One thrilling insight after another ... Damasio has succeeded brilliantly in narrowing the gap between body and mind.” —The New York Times Book Review

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 the forty-eight brief chapters of Feeling & Knowing, and in writing that remains faithful to our intuitive sense of what feeling and experiencing are about, 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.
 
Here is an indispensable guide to understand­ing how we experience the world within and around us and find our place in the universe.

About Antonio Damasio

Antonio Damasio is an internationally recognized leader in neuroscience. Since 2005 he is the director
of the USC's Brain and Creativity Institute. Prior to that he was M.W. Van Allen Professor and head of
neurology at University of Iowa Hospitals and Clinics. Damasio's books include Descartes' Error: Emotion,
Reason and the Human Brain, The Feeling of What Happens: Body and Emotion in the Making of Consciousness, named one of the ten best books of the year by the New York Times Book Review, and Looking for Spinoza: Joy Sorrow, and the Feeling Brain.

Reviews

Goodreads review by Liliana

Sensação ao terminar a leitura: como se, antes de começar, tivesse sede; terminado, soube a copo de água salgada. Deixa muito a desejar para quem realmente se interessa pelo tema. Num estilo disperso e vago, há repetição constante de ideias semelhantes. Ainda assim, considero que não deixa de ser um......more

Goodreads review by Federica

“La vita non può scorrere in assenza di sorveglianza e controllo: deve essere gestita. Per un buon governo della vita è indispensabile o una mente cosciente, o una competenza non esplicita, ma la gestione intelligente, in tutta la sua portata dal non cosciente al cosciente, non è necessaria in tutte......more

Goodreads review by J TC

António Damásio – Sentir e Saber. A caminho da consciência Diz-nos o autor que terá sido Dan Frank o seu editor da Pantheon a desafiá-lo a escrever um livro sobre a Consciência. Antes o não tivesse feito. Depois de ter lido do mesmo autor “O Livro da Consciência. A Construção do Cérebro Consciente” e......more

Goodreads review by Venky

Antonio Damasio, the David Dornsife Chair in Neuroscience, as well as Professor of Psychology, Philosophy, and Neurology, at the University of Southern California, in a slim but complex book, attempts to address the conflict between feeling and reason. Do we as human beings represent a feeling speci......more

Quotes

“Here the master scientist unites with the silken prose-stylist to produce one thrilling insight after another . . . Damasio has succeeded brilliantly in narrowing the gap between body and mind.”
—The New York Times Book Review

“Damasio’s concise, precise, and lucid prose effectively convey the core insight he has distilled over decades (2): that affect—encompassing, emotions, feelings, motivations, and moods—is central to understanding what we do, how we think, and who we are.”
—Science

“Damasio writes lucid prose clearly addressed to a popular audience. Even better, the book is concise and helpfully divided into dozens of short chapters, many only one or two pages. Make no mistake, however; Damasio is a deep thinker familiar with multiple disciplines, and this is as much a work of philosophy as hard science. Readers familiar with college level psychology and neuroscience will discover rewarding insights.”
—Kirkus Reviews

“So much of what novelists and poets write about touches on the centrality of feeling, especially on the polar opposites of feeling joy or suffering. I think great books, and movies too, touch on humanity so deeply. Their topics are the ones I chose for my research.”
—The Boston Globe
 
“There is something seductive about the succinct, almost literary, chapters and Damasio’s unabashed wonder at and reverence for the concept of consciousness—although he believes it can be explained using the disciplines known to us, he is no less in awe of its mechanisms. It is clear, for example, that Damasio holds in reverence the fact that our bodies can both experience feelings and modify those feelings within the same vessel. And often, this awe shines through in charming, allusive, whimsical sentences.”
—Undark

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