Quotes by Antonio Damasio

Antonio Damasio

A conscious mind is a mind with a self in it.

Brain

Mind

Self

A mind is so closely shaped by the body and destined to serve it that only one mind could possibly arise in it. No body, never mind.

Arise

Body

Mind

All of that is constantly operating when you not only learn, but when you recall. But as you recall in a different light, the weights with which something is more probably going to be or not recalled on the next instance, are going to be changed. So you’re constantly changing the way, for instance, synapses are going to fire very easily or not so easily.

Fire

Light

Way

But whether we want to do it because we want to have people to have a different idea of who we are or not, we do it naturally. So the way we construct our narrative is different from the way we constructed it a year ago. The difference is maybe very small or it may be huge.

Differences

Ideas

Years

Consciousness, much like our feelings, is based on a representation of the body and how it changes when reacting to certain stimuli. Self-image would be unthinkable without this representation.

Feelings

Self

Would Be

Emotion consists of a very well orchestrated set of alterations in the body that has, as a general purpose, making life more survivable by taking care of a danger, of taking care of an opportunity, either/or, or something in between.

Body

Opportunity

Purpose

Emotion is set in our genome and that we all have with a certain programmed nature that is modified by our experience so individually we have variations on the pattern. But in essence, your emotion of joy and mine are going to be extremely similar.

Essence

Joy

Variation

Emotion operates, very often when you think about how you react to the world, you know, something is happening to you, you’re simply going along and you’re being confronted by different things, not necessarily very important or significance for your ultimate life, but you are constantly reacting to the world.

Different

Important

Thinking

Emotions are enmeshed in the neural networks of reason.

Emotion

Leadership

Reason

I believe that it is made out of the same cloth of mind, but it is an add-on, it was something that was specialized to create what we call the self. And it exists for very special purposes and it has very special, and I think by and large good consequences, although not only good consequences.

Believe

Self

Thinking

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Arise

Beautiful

Believe

Biographies

Body

Brain

Consciousness

Decision

Differences

Different

Different Experiences

Dog

Emotion

Emotional

Enormous

Essence

Expression

Faces

Fall

Feelings

Fire

Focus

Grades

Heart

Ideas

Important

Intelligent

Joy

Leadership

Leaving

Levels

Light

Links

Machines

Mean

Memories

Mind

Morning

Movement

Names

Opportunity

Past

Perception

Problem

Purpose

Reality

Reason

Resonance

Sadness

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Quotes by Antonio Damasio

Antonio Damasio

A conscious mind is a mind with a self in it.

A mind is so closely shaped by the body and destined to serve it that only one mind could possibly arise in it. No body, never mind.

But whether we want to do it because we want to have people to have a different idea of who we are or not, we do it naturally. So the way we construct our narrative is different from the way we constructed it a year ago. The difference is maybe very small or it may be huge.

Consciousness, much like our feelings, is based on a representation of the body and how it changes when reacting to certain stimuli. Self-image would be unthinkable without this representation.

Emotion consists of a very well orchestrated set of alterations in the body that has, as a general purpose, making life more survivable by taking care of a danger, of taking care of an opportunity, either/or, or something in between.

Emotion is set in our genome and that we all have with a certain programmed nature that is modified by our experience so individually we have variations on the pattern. But in essence, your emotion of joy and mine are going to be extremely similar.

Emotions are enmeshed in the neural networks of reason.

I believe that it is made out of the same cloth of mind, but it is an add-on, it was something that was specialized to create what we call the self. And it exists for very special purposes and it has very special, and I think by and large good consequences, although not only good consequences.

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