Beschreibung:
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.
'Will give pleasure to anyone interested in original thinking about the brain...Breathtakingly original' Financial Times
The trailblazing investigation of a question that has confounded us for centuries: how is consciousness created?
In Self Comes to Mind, world-renowned neuroscientist Antonio Damasio goes against the long-standing idea that consciousness is separate from the body, presenting compelling new scientific evidence that consciousness - what we think of as a mind with a self - is in fact a biological process created by a living organism. His view entails a radical change in the way the history of the conscious mind is viewed and told, suggesting that the brain's development of a human self is a challenge to nature's indifference.
Groundbreaking ideas and beautifully written, this is essential reading for anyone curious about the foundations of mind and self.
In ihrem tiefgründigen und bahnbrechenden Buch erzählen Hanna und Antonio Damasio, zwei der weltweit führenden Neuro-Wissenschaftler, die Geschichte des Bewusstseins und des menschlichen Geists. Sie stellen sich den zwei Fragen, die Philosophen, Neurologen, Psychologen und Kognitionswissenschaftler seit Jahrhunderten quält: Wie schafft das Hirn den Geist und wie kommt der Geist zu Bewusstsein? Ein wunderschön geschriebenes Buch, das uns verrät, wie der menschliche Geist funktioniert und uns einen Blick auf die Wurzel unserer fundamentalsten Konzepte - Selbst, Identität, Persönlichkeit und Selbstbild - erlaubt.
