The Feeling of What Happens : Body & Emotion in the Making of Consciousness (edit title)

Shelfari edited the description of The Feeling of What Happens : Body & Emotion in the Making of Consciousness Tuesday, August 4 2009.

• Widely praised for his innovative scientific thinking and elegant writing, Antonio Damasio achieves a new understanding of consciousness by asking-and answering-profound questions: How is it that we know what we know? How is it that our conscious and private minds have a sense of self? A gifted medical clinician with decades of caring for patients with brain damage, a great scientific thinker, and an extraordinary writer, Damasio offers a new understanding of the biological roots of consciousness and its role in survival. Damasio's work on feeling and emotion forever joins our minds and bodies, offering an arrestingly original way of understanding what it is to be human. After reading Damasio's landmark, Descartes' Error, Jonas Salk wrote, "You will never again look at yourself or another without wondering what goes on behind the eyes that so meet." As to The Feeling of What Happens, the New York Times wrote, "Unlike any other book here, it will change your experience of yourself."

Shelfari edited the contributors of The Feeling of What Happens : Body & Emotion in the Making of Consciousness Wednesday, July 22 2009.

• Added a contributor: Antonio R. Damasio: (Primary Author)

Shelfari edited the first sentence of The Feeling of What Happens : Body & Emotion in the Making of Consciousness Thursday, July 16 2009.

• I have always been intrigued by the specific moment when, as we sit waiting in the audience, the door to the stage opens and a performer steps into the light; or, to take the other perspective, the moment when a performer who waits in semidarkness sees the same door open, revealing the lights, the stage, and the audience.