Book description
Winner of the CORINE International Book Award 2011
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.
ANTONIO DAMASIO
is University Professor, David Dornsife Professor of Neuroscience,
Psychology, and Neurology, and director of the Brain and Creativity
Institute at the University of Southern California. Damasio's other
books include
Descartes' Error
;
The Feeling of What Happens
; and
Looking for Spinoza
. He has received the Honda Prize, the Prince of Asturias Award for
Technical and Scientific Research, and, shared with his wife Hanna, the
Pessoa, Signoret, and Cozzarelli prizes. Damasio is a fellow of the
Institute of Medicine of the National Academy of Sciences, the American
Academy of Arts and Sciences, the Bavarian Academy of Sciences, and the
European Academy of Sciences and Arts. He lives in Los Angeles.
