• DOI:10.5860/choice.37-6553
Corpus ID: 16316582

The Feeling of What Happens: Body and Emotion in the Making of Consciousness

@inproceedings{Damasio1999TheFO,
  title={The Feeling of What Happens: Body and Emotion in the Making of Consciousness},
  author={A. Damasio},
  year={1999}
}

A. Damasio

Published 1999

Psychology

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'The Feeling of What Happens will change your experience of yourself' New York Times Where do our emotions come from? What does it mean to be conscious? At its core, human consciousness is awareness of the feeling, experiencing self, the 'very thought of' oneself. Brilliantly wide-ranging in his scope, leading expert on the neurophysiology of emotions Antonio Damasio illustrates his thesis with fascinating and illuminating neurological case studies that are both stimulating and provocative.