The author and neuroscientist engage in a dialogue about how we know, what we feel, and how we understand ourselves. What is consciousness, and how does it emerge from the flesh of the brain? For ...

Say what you will about George W. Bush’s style, but you can’t fault him for having an overly brain-based conception of how to make decisions. As Stephen Colbert famously said, our 43rd president ...

Why do humans have consciousness? In his new book, Self Comes To Mind, neurologist Antonio Damasio argues that consciousness gave humans an evolutionary advantage. Damasio describes the differences ...

The Strange Order of Things by Antonio Damasio is a scientific work about feelings, and the part they have played in biology and culture. The often ignored connection between emotion and society, and ...

Antonio Damasio is one of the most influential neuroscientists of his generation. He has pioneered several of the themes the define the field, including the importance of emotion - we need to feel in ...

Nietzsche would have given four cheers for this intricately argued book, which is at once scientifically rigorous and humanely accommodating, and, so far as this reviewer can judge, revolutionary.

Bruce Adolphe composed "Self Comes to Mind" (in three movements) based on a text by Antonio Damasio and dedicated the music to Damasio and Yo-Yo Ma. On May 3, the American Museum of Natural History in ...

Consciousness has become a hot topic for brain scientists. Once, we were content to leave the interminable mind/brain problem to philosophers and theologians. Speculation remained a CLM – a ...

In “Self Comes to Mind,” the eminent neurologist and neuroscientist Antonio Damasio gives an account of consciousness that might come naturally to a highly caffeinated professor in his study. He ...