Director | August 24, 2010
Review of Antonio R. Damasio, Descartes’ Error: Motion, Reason, and the Human Brain, New York: G.P. Putnam’s Sons, 1994. Science has devalued emotion because scientists believed emotion clouded reason or played no part in reasoning and was a function of the “lower brain.” Damasio is correcting this view by showing that feelings allow minding of […]
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Director | August 21, 2010
Brain science is flourishing, but it is yet in its adolescence, with many researchers offering wildly differing theories of the brain/mind connection. This is understandable because there is no such thing as scientific interpretation. All interpretation comes from existing worldviews projected upon data. As brain studies progress, many theories will be discarded, but at the […]
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Tags: Antonio Damasio, brain function, brain/mind interaction, Descartes' Error, feeling states and mental images, the problem of the self
