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Antonio damasio’s book is about emotion, its influence on decision-making, and how * states create emotion. Damasio's theory of embodied cognition is now widely influential in psychology, neuroscience and behavioral economics.

In a healthy, fully-functioning brain, it’s the delicate interactions between reason and emotion that help us decide how to balance the competing factors. Pinning down emotions in neurology is the gateway to the understanding of what really makes us h... Read More

A true experimentalist, damasio describes how people are emotionally impaired when they arelacking some component of the systems by which somatic markers are createdin the body and read by the brain. According to damasio physical pain,emotional upheav... Read More

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My main objection to the theory is the excessive role that it gives the body in influencing brain states. Where the book is novel, it relies on speculative scientific theories (primarily from neuro-science) the writing is all over the place. The book ... Read More

Damasio's view is not parsimonious, nor is it supported by much evidence. His somatic markers theory suggests that parts of the body elicit an emotional reaction which interfaces with the amygdala and limbic system, but provides very little real evide... Read More

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While much of what he has to say is plausible if not self evident once you think about it, demasio is clear that much of what h... Read More

If you are interested in reading about topics dealing with the mind, and this is the first book that you are choosing to read i... Read More

He starts with the instructive example of phineas gage.

If you are not familiar with the brain you will be constantly going to wikipedia or google to figure out what exactly he is talking about.

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Damasio is a gifted writer and an outstanding scientist.

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Beautifully written for the layperson without dumbing down the message.

Competitiveness

Your brain then 'reads' the signals comming from your body as nervousness.

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This product had a total of 512 reviews as of our last analysis date on Jul 31 2022.