Self Comes to Mind

Constructing the Conscious Brain

Antonio Damasio

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Vintage
01 April 2012

Mathematics & Sciences; Popular science; Popular psychology

A profound and groundbreaking new book telling the story of consciousness and the human mind, from one of the world's leading neuroscientists.

'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.

By: Antonio Damasio
Imprint: Vintage
Country of Publication: United Kingdom
Dimensions: Height: 197mm, Width: 128mm, Spine: 30mm
Weight: 333g
ISBN: 9780099498025
ISBN 10: 0099498022
Pages: 384
Publication Date: 01 April 2012
Audience: General/trade , ELT Advanced
Format: Paperback
Publisher's Status: Active

ANTONIO DAMASIO is the director of the University of Southern California's Brain and Creativity Institute. Damasio's books include Descartes' Error: Emotion, Reason, and the Human Brain; The Feeling of What Happens: Body and Emotion in the Making of Consciousness (named one of the ten best books of the year by the New York Times Book Review); and Looking for Spinoza: Joy, Sorrow, and the Feeling Brain. He lives in Los Angeles.

Reviews for Self Comes to Mind: Constructing the Conscious Brain

Breathtakingly original * Financial Times * Awareness may be mostly mystery, but Damasio shapes its hints and glimmerings into an imaginative, informed narrative * Kirkus * The marvel of reading Damasio's book is to be convinced one can follow the brain at work as it makes the private reality that is the deepest self * V. S. Naipaul * Damasio's most ambitious work yet. It is a lucid and important work * Word * The epicenter of Self Comes to Mind concerns the neurological basis for cognition and the issue of the superposition of a self' onto the construct which we address as reality. Damasio is both eloquent and scholarly. His command of the themes he approaches is impressive, as is the vigor with which he tackles such recondite issues as the elusive self, inside the head. A wonderful read, and a recommended one! -- Rodolfo R. Llinas, New York University