Descartes' Error: Emotion, Reason, and the Human Brain, (Paperback)

from gbsallery

A fascinating tour through some now sadly slightly dated research into brain function. This was the book which popularised the story of Phineas Gage, and it tells the story very well; much of the subsequent sections of the book advance Damasio's own "somatic marker hypothesis", which now seems so...

from TurtleBoy

This book poses a wonderful hypothesis, in opposition to the views espoused by purists of reason in ages past (Plato and Descartes among them): that not only are emotion and feelings quite inextricably interlaced with reason and rationality, they are also essential to reason's proper functioning....

from elenchus

1 - Somatic-marker hypothesis posits that emotions/feelings are integral to reasoning, not an obstacle or impedence to it. 2 - Hints that the self, broadly understood, is predicated upon emotions/feelings as defined by Damasio 3 - Emotions defined as body-states (somatic states, e.g. heart rate, ...

from neurodrew

30 November 1999 I know Tony Damasio slightly from the NINDS Advisory Council; he is always well-dressed and coiffured. His argument in this popular work is that the ability of the brain to judge emotional states and motivations of other individuals is the work of the prefrontal cortex. The lack ...

from neurodrew

30 November 1999 I know Tony Damasio slightly from the NINDS Advisory Council; he is always well-dressed and coiffured. His argument in this popular work is that the ability of the brain to judge emotional states and motivations of other individuals is the work of the prefrontal cortex. The lack ...