Descartes' Error: Emotion, Reason and the Human Brain
@article{Spence1995DescartesEE,
title={Descartes' Error: Emotion, Reason and the Human Brain},
author={Sean A. Spence},
journal={BMJ},
year={1995},
volume={310},
pages={1213}
}Antonio R Damasio Picador, pounds sterling16.99, pp 312 ISBN 0 330 33927 3
Documentary makers find the brain sexy at present; surf the television channels and the workings of the psyche are hard to avoid: violence, paraphilias, psychopathy, all are explained.
Brain books are similarly popular. They come in three varieties. There is the “you're only” school: you're only a cluster of neurons (Francis Crick), processes (Daniel Dennett), microtubules (Sir Roger Penrose) and so on in a…
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