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Damasio, A. (2006). Descartes' error. Revised ed. London: Vintage. (Original work published 1994). Added by: Mark Grimshaw-Aagaard (19/08/2011, 04:19) |
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| Resource type: Book BibTeX citation key: Damasio1994 Email resource to friend View all bibliographic details  |
Categories: General Creators: Damasio Publisher: Vintage (London) |
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p.97
"We do not know, and it is improbable that we will ever know, what "absolute" reality is like."
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Keywords: Reality/Virtuality/Actuality |
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p.139
"emotion is the combination of a mental evaluative process, simple or complex, with dispositional responses to that process, mostly toward the body proper, resulting in an emotional body state, but also toward the brain itself [...] resulting in additional mental changes."
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Keywords: Alief Emotion Feelings |
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p.143
"all emotions generate feelings if you are awake and alert, but not all feelings originate in emotions. I call background feelings those that do not originate in emotions."
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Keywords: Feelings Emotion |
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p.145
"If an emotion is a collection of changes in body state connected to particular mental images that have activated a specific brain system, the essence of feeling an emotion is the experience of such changes in juxtaposition to the mental images that initiated the cycle. [...] a feeling depends on the juxtaposition of an image of the body proper to an image of something else such as the visual image of a face or the auditory image of a melody."
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Keywords: Emotion Feelings |
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p.173
"Somatic markers probably increase the accuracy and efficiency of the decision process. Their absence reduces them."
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Keywords: Reason |
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p.173
"When a negative somatic marker is juxtaposed to a particular future outcome the combination functions as an alarm bell. When a positive somatic marker is juxtaposed instead, it becomes a beacon of incentive."
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Keywords: Reason |
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pp.174–175
"somatic markers [...] assist the process of sifting through [the] wealth of detail [involved in decision-making] -- in effect, reduce the need for sifting because they provide an automated detection of the scenario components which are more likely to be relevant."
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Keywords: Feelings Reason |
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p.226
"the mind arises from activity in neural circuits [...] many of these circuits were shaped in evolution by functional requisites of the organism [...] a normal mind will happen only if those circuits contain basic representations of the organism and if they continue monitoring the states of the organism in action."
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Keywords: Mind |
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p.226
"[The body] contributes a content that is part and parcel of the workings of the normal mind."
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Keywords: Embodied cognition Mind |
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pp.226–227
"the self is a repeatedly reconstructed biological state"
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Keywords: Autopoiesis Self Self-Organizing System |
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p.230
The outside world, the environment, is represented in the mind through the modifications it leads to in the body. The environment is represented "by modifying the primordial representations of the body proper whenever an interaction between organism and environment takes place." [...] The mind does this because it evolved to "ensure body survival as effectively as possible"
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Keywords: Autopoiesis Engagement Mind Self |
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p.173
Damasio proposes a Somatic-Marker hypothesis which integrates feelings generated by secondary emotions into rational decision making.
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Keywords: Feelings Reason |