November 26, 1999
A Neurologist Steps Back From the Brain to Look at Consciousness
In his new book, Iowa's Antonio Damasio approaches philosophy in exploring a mystery of the mind
Walking down a dark street, with the sound of footsteps behind. Heartbeat goes up, adrenaline flows. Raw fear. The feeling of being afraid, the experience of the emotion. Something is behind that feeling, pervading it, something that includes all of the brain and the body: The shadowy sense that the fear has an owner.
This, in brief, is consciousness, as
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