Antonio Damasio Quotes

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• We are not thinking machines that feel; rather, we are feeling machines that think.

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  Thinking, Feelings, Machines

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• Emotions are enmeshed in the neural networks of reason.

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  Leadership, Emotion, Reason

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• There is no such thing as a disembodied mind. The mind is implanted in the brain, and the brain is implanted in the body.

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  Brain, Mind, Body

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• A conscious mind is a mind with a self in it.

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  Self, Brain, Mind

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• I continue to be fascinated by the fact that feelings are not just the shady side of reason but that they help us to reach decisions as well.

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  Decision, Feelings, Sides

  "Feeling Our Emotions". Interview with Manuela Lenzen, www.scientificamerican.com.

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• Consciousness begins when brains acquire the power, the simple power I must add, of telling a story.

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  Simple, Brain, Add

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• Emotion consists of a very well orchestrated set of alterations in the body that has, as a general purpose, making life more survivable by taking care of a danger, of taking care of an opportunity, either/or, or something in between.

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  Opportunity, Purpose, Body

  "Big Think Interview With Antonio Damasio". Interview with David Hirschman, bigthink.com. August 10, 2010.

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• We all woke up this morning and we had with it the amazing return of our conscious mind. We recovered minds with a complete sense of self and a complete sense of our own existence, yet we hardly ever pause to consider this wonder.

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  Morning, Sleep, Self

  "The quest to understand the consciousness". TED Talks, www.ted.com. March, 2011.

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• A mind is so closely shaped by the body and destined to serve it that only one mind could possibly arise in it. No body, never mind.

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  Mind, Body, Arise

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• I got interested in the emotions after studying patients who had lost the ability to emote and feel under certain circumstances. Many of those patients also had major impairments in their ability to make decisions.

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  Decision, Emotion, Patient

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• Rather than being a luxury, emotions are a very intelligent way of driving an organism toward certain outcomes.

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  Intelligent, Luxury, Outcomes

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• The self is a perpetually recreated neurobiological state.

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  Self, States

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• When you experience the emotion of sadness, there will be changes in facial expression, and your body will be closed in, withdrawn. There are also changes in your heart, your guts: they slow down. And there are hormonal changes.

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  Heart, Sadness, Expression

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• We do not merely perceive objects and hold thoughts in our minds: all our perceptions and thought processes are felt. All have a distinctive component that announces an unequivocal link between images and the existence of life in our organism.

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  Perception, Mind, Links

  "Self Comes To Mind". Interview with Jonah Lehrer, www.wired.com. November 8, 2010.

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• Feeling of an emotion is a process that is distinct from having the emotion in the first place. So it helps to understand what is an emotion, what is a feeling, we need to understand what is an emotion.

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  Feelings, Needs, Firsts

  Big Think Interview, bigthink.com.

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• The problem that we, as living organisms, face - and not we only, humans, but any living organism faces - is the management of life.

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  Faces, Management, Problem

  "The Evolving Minds Of Humans". "Science Friday" with Ira Flatow, www.npr.org. November 12, 2010.

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• Emotion operates, very often when you think about how you react to the world, you know, something is happening to you, you're simply going along and you're being confronted by different things, not necessarily very important or significance for your ultimate life, but you are constantly reacting to the world.

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  Thinking, Important, Different

  Interview with David Hirschman, bigthink.com. August 10, 2010.

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• Imagine, for example, birds. When they look out at the world, they have a sense that they are alive. If they are in pain, they can do something about it. If they have hunger or thirst, they can satisfy that. It's this basic feeling that there is life ticking away inside of you.

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  Pain, Bird, Feelings

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• So, you can define emotions very simply as the process of perceiving what is going on in the organs when you are in the throws of an emotion, and that is achieved by a collection of structures, some of which are in the brain stem, and some of which are in the cerebral cortex, namely the insular cortex, which I like to mention not because I think it's the most important, it's not.

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  Thinking, Brain, Important

  Source: bigthink.com

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• In the heart of consciousness is subjectivity, this sense of having a self that observes one's own organism and the world around that organism. That is really the heart of consciousness.

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  Heart, Self, World

  Big Think Interview, bigthink.com.

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• You know, mind allows us to portray in different sensory modalities, visual, auditory, olfactory, you name it, what we are like and what the world is like. But this very, very important quality of subjectivity, this quality that allows us to take a distant view and say, "I am here, I exist, I have a life and there are things around me that refer to me." That me-ness, M-E-hyphen, that is what really constitutes consciousness.

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  Views, Names, Mind

  Big Think Interview, bigthink.com.

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• In 'Self Comes to Mind' I pay a lot of attention to simple creatures without brains or minds, because those 'cartooned abstractions of who we are' operate on precisely the same principles that we do.

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  Simple, Self, Brain

  "Self Comes To Mind". Interview with Jonah Lehrer, www.wired.com. November 8, 2010.

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• Consciousness permits us to develop the instruments of culture - morality and justice, religion, art, economics and politics, science and technology. Those instruments allow us some measure of freedom in the confrontation with nature.

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  Art, Technology, Justice

  "Self Comes to Mind". Interview with Jonah Lehrer, www.wired.com. November 8, 2010.

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• Narratives are not fixed. We change our narratives for ourselves and we change them not necessarily deliberately. In other words, some people do, some people will constantly reconstruct their biography for external purposes, it's a very interesting political ploy.

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  People, Interesting, Political

  Interviewwith David Hirschman, bigthink.com. August 10, 2010.

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• Some of us, for better or worse, develop very stable, consistent, and largely predictable machineries of self. But in others, the self machinery is more flexible and more open to unexpected turns.

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  Self, Unexpected, Machinery

  "Neuroscientist Antonio Damasio Explains Consciousness" by Antonio Damasio, www.huffingtonpost.com. November 16, 2010.

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