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Descartes’ Error: Emotion, Reason, and the Human Brain

Antonio R. Damasio

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#2918 of 3,809 books · #333 in Science & Technology

Shortlisted for the Los Angeles Times Book Prize for Science and Technology (1995).

In the centuries since Descartes famously proclaimed, 'I think, therefore I am,' science has often overlooked emotions as the source of a person's true being. Even modern neuroscience has tended until recently to concentrate on the cognitive aspects of brain function, disregarding emotions. Antonio Damasio challenged traditional ideas about the connection between emotions and rationality. In this book, Damasio takes the reader on a journey of scientific discovery through a series of case studies, demonstrating what many of us have long suspected: emotions are not a luxury, they are essential to rational thinking and to normal social behaviour.

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Publisher
Random House
ISBN-13
9781407072067
Topics
NeuroscienceEmotion and reasonBrain function

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