Antonio Damasio is University Professor, David Dornsife Professor of Neuroscience, Psychology, and Neurology, and director of the Brain and Creativity Institute at the University of Southern California. Damasio’s other books include Descartes’ Error; The Feeling of What Happens; and Looking for Spinoza. He has received the Honda Prize, the Prince of Asturias Award for Technical and Scientific Research, and, shared with his wife Hanna, the Pessoa, Signoret, and Cozzarelli prizes. Damasio is a fellow of the Institute of Medicine of the National Academy of Sciences, the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, the Bavarian Academy of Sciences, and the European Academy of Sciences and Arts. He lives in Los Angeles.
“Self Comes to Mind is a Big Idea book penned by a luminous
thinker. . . . [A] beautifully sprawling and marvelous work.” —The
Dallas Morning News
“Will give pleasure to anyone interested in original thinking about
the brain. . . . Breathtakingly original.” —Financial
Times
“Damasio introduces some novel ideas. . . . Intriguing.” —New
Scientist
“Adventurous, courageous, and intelligent. Antonio Damasio is one
of the leading workers in the field of consciousness research. . . .
I have great admiration for this book and its author.” —John
Searle, The New York Review of Books
“Damasio’s most ambitious work yet. . . . A lucid and
important work.” —Wired.com
“A very interesting book . . . cogent, painstaking, imaginative,
knowledgeable, honest, and persuasive . . . Damasio’s quest is both
thorough and comprehensive.” —New York Journal of Books
“Damasio’s continental European training sensitizes him to the
reductionist traps that ensnare so many of his colleagues. His is
the only one of the many consciousness books weighing down my
shelves that feels it necessary to mention Freud’s . . . use of the
term unconscious.” —The Guardian (Book of the Week)
“A delight. You will embark on an intellectual journey well worth
the effort.” —The Wilson Quarterly
“Readers of [Damasio’s] earlier books will encounter again the
clarity and the richness of a scientific theory nourished by the
practice of the neurologist.” —L’Humanité (France)
“Some scientific heavyweights have dared approach consciousness.
Among them, Antonio Damasio has the immense advantage of a dual
knowledge of the human brain, as scientist and clinician. In Self
Comes to Mind he gives us a fascinating window of this interface
between the brain and the world, which is grounded in our own
body.” —Le Figaro (France)
“The marvel of reading Damasio’s book is to be convinced one can
follow the brain at work as it makes the private reality that is
the deepest self.” —V. S. Naipaul, Nobel laureate and author of A
Bend in the River
“Damasio makes a grand transition from higher- brain views of
emotions to deeply evolutionary, lower- brain contributions to
emotional, sensory, and homeostatic experiences. He affi rms that
the roots of consciousness are affective and shared by our fellow
animals. Damasio’s creative vision leads relentlessly toward a
natural understanding of the very font of being.” —Jaak Panksepp,
author of Affective Neuroscience and Baily Endowed Chair for Animal
Well- Being Science, Washington State University
“I was totally captivated by Self Comes to Mind. Damasio presents
his seminal discoveries in the fi eld of neuroscience in the broader
contexts of evolutionary biology and cultural development. This
trailblazing book gives us a new way of thinking about ourselves,
our history, and the importance of culture in shaping our common
future.” —Yo-Yo Ma
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