SELF COMES TO MIND by Antonio Damasio ( 9780099498025 ) - Books & Audio Books at Pickabook.co.uk

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Title:

SELF COMES TO MIND

By:

Antonio Damasio

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Paperback

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ISBN 10:

0099498022

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9780099498025

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Publisher:

VINTAGE PUBLISHING

Pub. date:

1 January, 2012

Pages:

384

Description:

Shows that consciousness - what we think of as a mind with a self - is in fact a biological process created by a living organism. This title provides an investigative journey into the neurobiological foundations of mind and self.

Synopsis:

This title is winner of the CORINE International Book Award 2011. It is from one of the most important neuroscientists at work today, a path-breaking investigation of a question that has confounded neurologists, philosophers, cognitive scientists and psychologists for centuries: how is consciousness created? Antonio Damasio has spent the past thirty years studying and writing about how the brain operates, and his work has garnered acclaim for its singular melding of the scientific and the humanistic. In "Self Comes to Mind", he goes against the long-standing idea that consciousness is somehow 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. The result is a groundbreaking investigative journey into the neurobiological foundations of mind and self.

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