Looking for Spinoza: Joy, Sorrow, and the Feeling Brain (edit title)

Shelfari edited the description of Looking for Spinoza: Joy, Sorrow, and the Feeling Brain Sunday, August 2 2009.

• In the seventeenth century, the philosopher Spinoza examined the role emotion played in human survival and culture. Yet hundreds of years and many significant scientific advances later, the neurobiological roots of joy and sorrow remain a mystery. Today, we spend countless resources doctoring our feelings with alcohol, prescription drugs, health clubs, therapy, vacation retreats, and other sorts of consumption; still, the inner workings of our minds-what feelings are, how they work, and what they mean-are largely an unexplored frontier. With scientific expertise and literary facility, bestselling author and world famous neuroscientist Antonio Damasio concludes his groundbreaking trilogy in Looking for Spinoza, exploring the cerebral processes that keep us alive and make life worth living.

Shelfari edited the contributors of Looking for Spinoza: Joy, Sorrow, and the Feeling Brain Sunday, July 26 2009.

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

Shelfari edited the first sentence of Looking for Spinoza: Joy, Sorrow, and the Feeling Brain Thursday, July 16 2009.

• Feelings of pain or pleasure or some quality in between are the bedrock of our minds.