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The author Antonio R. Damasio wrote around 20 of quotes.

23 Antonio R. Damasio Quotes on Awakening, Character flaws and Emotions

Q: What is the best Antonio R. Damasio quote?

"We all woke up this morning and we had with it the amazing return of our conscious mind. We recovered minds with a complete sense of self and a complete sense of our own existence — yet we hardly ever pause to consider this wonder." - Antonio R. Damasio

Q: What are some Antonio R. Damasio quotes?

"The distinction between diseases of "brain" and "mind," between "neurological" problems and "psychological" or "psychiatric" ones, is an unfortunate cultural inheritance that permeates society and medicine. It reflects a basic ignorance of the relation between brain and mind. Diseases of the brain are seen as tragedies visited on people who cannot be blamed for their condition, while diseases of the mind, especially those that affect conduct and emotion, are seen as social inconveniences for which sufferers have much to answer. Individuals are to be blamed for their character flaws, defective emotional modulation, and so on; lack of willpower is supposed to be the primary problem." "Leaving out appraisal also would render the biological description of the phenomena of emotion vulnerable to the caricature that emotions without an appraisal phase are meaningless events. It would be more difficult to see how beautiful and amazingly intelligent emotions can be, and how powerfully they can solve problems for us." "...I sense that stepping into the light is also a powerful metaphor for consciousness, for the birth of the knowing mind, for the simple and yet momentous coming of the sense of self into the world of the mental." - Antonio R. Damasio

Q: What are some short Antonio R. Damasio quotes?

"WE ALMOST NEVER think of the present, and when we do, it is only to see what light it throws on our plans for the future." "Perhaps the most indispensable thing we can do as human beings, every day of our lives, is remind ourselves and others of our complexity, fragility, finiteness, and uniqueness." "Phineas Gage's case is not the only important historical source in the effort to understand the neural basis of reasoning and decision making;" - Antonio R. Damasio

I do not see emotions and feelings as the intangible and vaporous qualities that many presume them to be. Their subject matter is concrete, and they can be related to specific systems in body and brain, no less so than vision or speech.

The self is a repeatedly reconstructed biological state.

Because the brain is the body’s captive audience, feelings are winners among equals. And.

Phineas Gage's case is not the only importanthistorical source in the effort to understand the neural basis ofreasoning and decision making...[to understand the effect of] prefrontal damage. ... The Hebb-Penfield and Ackerly-Benton shared a numberof personality traits...One way of describing their predicamentis by saying that they never construct an appropriate theory abouttheir persons.

Phineas_gage_complex Quotes

It is not customary to refer to organisms when we talk about brainand mind. It has been so obvious that mind arises from the activityof neurons that only neurons are discussed as if their operationcould be independent from that of the rest of the organism. But as Iinvestigated disorders of memory, language, and reason in numeroushuman beings with brain damage, the idea that mental activity, fromits simplest aspects to its most sublime, requires both brain and bodyproper became especially compelling.

Descartes error Quotes

Because the brain is the body’s captive audience, feelings are winners among equals. And

Descartes' Error: Emotion Quotes Reason Quotes and the Human Brain Quotes

most of our decision making was shaped by somatic states related to punishment and reward. But

Descartes' Error: Emotion Quotes Reason Quotes and the Human Brain Quotes

somatic markers depend on learning within a system that can connect certain categories of entity or event with the enactment of a body state, pleasant or unpleasant. Incidentally,

Descartes' Error: Emotion Quotes Reason Quotes and the Human Brain Quotes

It is also true that the separate brain units, byvirtue of where they are placed in a system, contribute differentcomponents to the system's operation and are thus not interchangeable.

Descartes error Quotes

Phineas Gage's case is not the only importanthistorical source in the effort to understand the neural basis ofreasoning and decision making;

Descartes error Quotes

Phineas Gage's case is not the only importanthistorical source in the effort to understand the neural basis ofreasoning and decision making...[to understand the effect of] prefrontal damage. ... The Hebb-Penfield and Ackerly-Benton shared a numberof personality traits...They are bereft of a theory oftheir own mind and of the mind of those with whom they interact

Phineas_gage_complex Quotes

By now you may have concluded that the conversation was neitherabout Descartes nor about philosophy, although it certainly wasabout mind, brain, and body. My friend suggested it should takeplace under the Sign of Descartes, since there was no way of approachingsuch themes without evoking the emblematic figure whoshaped the most commonly held account of their relationship. Atthis point I realized that, in a curious way, the book would be aboutDescartes' Error. You will, of course, want to know what the Errorwas, but for the moment I am sworn to secrecy. I promise, though,that it will be revealed.

Descartes error Quotes

Neither anguish nor the elation that love or art canbring about are devalued by understanding some of the myriadbiological processes that make them what they are. Precisely theopposite should be true: Our sense of wonder should increase beforethe intricate mechanisms that make such magic possible. Feelingsform the base for what humans have described for millennia as thehuman soul or spirit.

Descartes error Quotes

As a consequence of natural analgesic actions or as a result of the administration of drugs that interfere with body signaling (painkillers, anesthetics), the brain receives a distorted view of what the body state really is at the moment. We know that in situations of fear in which the brain chooses the running option rather than freezing, the brain stem disengages the part of the pain-transmission circuitry, a bit like pulling the plug. The periqueductal gray, which controls these responses, can also command the secretion of natural opioids and achieve precisely what taking an analgesic would achieve -- elimination of pain signals.In the strict sense, we are dealing here with a hallucination of the body because what the brain registers in its maps and the conscious mind feels do not correspond to the reality that might be perceived. Whenever we ingest molecules the have the power to modify the transmission or mapping of body signals, we play on this mechanism. Alcohol does it; so do analgesics and anesthetics, as well as countless drugs of abuse. It is patently clear that, other than out of curiousity, humans are drawn to such molecules because of their desire to generate feelings of well-being, feelings in which pain signals are obliterated and pleasure signals induced.

Brain Quotes Pain Quotes / Drug abuse Quotes Drugs Quotes Mind Quotes Pleasure Quotes

Para mi es imposible pensar que tipo de emocion de miedo quedaria si no estuvieran presentes la sensacion de latidos acelerados o de respiracion entrecortada, ni la sensacion de labios temblorosos o de piernas debilitadas, ni de carne de gallina o de retorcijones de tripas. Puede alguien imaginarse el estado de ira sin sentir que el pecho estalla, la cara se ruboriza, los orificios nasales se dilatan, los dientes se aprietan, sin notar el impulso hacia la accion vigorosa? Puede sentirse rabia en cambio con los musculos relajados, la respiracion calmada y una cara placida?

Cuerpo Quotes Mente Quotes

The neural basis for the self, as I see it, resides with the continuous reactivation of at least two sets of representations. One set concerns representations of key events in an individual's autobiography, on the basis of which a notion of identity can be reconstructed repeatedly, by partial activation in topologically organized sensory maps. ... In brief, the endless reactivation of updated images about our identity (a combination of memories of the past and of the planned future) constitutes a sizable part of the state of self as I understand it.The second set of representations underlying the neural self consists of the primordial representations of an individual's body ... Of necessity, this encompasses background body states and emotional states. The collective representation of the body constitute the basis for a "concept" of self, much as a collection of representations of shape, size, color, texture, and taste can constitute the basis for the concept of orange.

Autobiographical Quotes Body Quotes Connection Quotes Descartes' Error: Emotion Quotes Reason and the Human Brain Quotes Identity Quotes

We use our minds not to discover facts but to hide them. One of things the screen hides most effectively is the body, our own body, by which I mean, the ins and outs of it, its interiors. Like a veil thrown over the skin to secure its modesty, the screen partially removes from the mind the inner states of the body, those that constitute the flow of life as it wanders in the journey of each day. (p.28)

Avoidance Quotes Body Quotes Denial Quotes Hidden Quotes Life Quotes Mind Quotes

Perhaps the most indispensable thing we can do as human beings, every day of our lives, is remind ourselves and others of our complexity, fragility, finiteness, and uniqueness.

WE ALMOST NEVER think of the present, and when we do, it is only to see what light it throws on our plans for the future.

Thinking Quotes / Mind Quotes Present Quotes

...I sense that stepping into the light is also a powerful metaphor for consciousness, for the birth of the knowing mind, for the simple and yet momentous coming of the sense of self into the world of the mental.

Knowledge Quotes / Consciousness Quotes Metaphor Quotes Mind Quotes Self awareness Quotes The Feeling of What Happens: Body and Emotion in the Making of Consciousness Quotes

Leaving out appraisal also would render the biological description of the phenomena of emotion vulnerable to the caricature that emotions without an appraisal phase are meaningless events. It would be more difficult to see how beautiful and amazingly intelligent emotions can be, and how powerfully they can solve problems for us.

Emotions Quotes Looking for Spinoza: Joy Quotes Sorrow Quotes and the Feeling Brain Quotes Meaning Quotes Mind Quotes

The distinction between diseases of "brain" and "mind," between "neurological" problems and "psychological" or "psychiatric" ones, is an unfortunate cultural inheritance that permeates society and medicine. It reflects a basic ignorance of the relation between brain and mind. Diseases of the brain are seen as tragedies visited on people who cannot be blamed for their condition, while diseases of the mind, especially those that affect conduct and emotion, are seen as social inconveniences for which sufferers have much to answer. Individuals are to be blamed for their character flaws, defective emotional modulation, and so on; lack of willpower is supposed to be the primary problem.

Brain Quotes Character Quotes / Character flaws Quotes Descartes' Error: Emotion Quotes Reason and the Human Brain Quotes Mental disorder Quotes Mental health Quotes Mental illness Quotes

We all woke up this morning and we had with it the amazing return of our conscious mind. We recovered minds with a complete sense of self and a complete sense of our own existence — yet we hardly ever pause to consider this wonder.

Sleep Quotes / Awakening Quotes Consciousness Quotes Dreams Quotes Self Comes to Mind: Constructing the Conscious Brain. Quotes

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