Descartes’ Error, Part 2
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 […]