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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Without consciousness - that is, a mind endowed with subjectivity - you would have no way of knowing who you are. -Antonio Damasio The brain, mind, self and consciousness, on their own and in ...

Looking for Spinoza: Joy, Sorrow and the Feeling Brain by Antonio Damasio 320pp, Heinemann, £20 A new treatment for Parkinson's disease involves implanting tiny electrodes in the patient's brain-stem.

Our minds make maps of all the things we see, hear and sense, he says Damasio: We need more than the maps; it takes a sense of self to be fully conscious How do living organisms become conscious of ...

In Natural Intelligence and the Logic of Consciousness, the neuroscientist argues that primitive bodily feelings give rise to the conscious mind. What made you decide to write this book? I finally ...