Natural Intelligence and the Logic of Consciousness: What It Is, How It Is Made and Why It Matters - Hardcover

Damasio, Antonio

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ISBN 10: 1472149505 ISBN 13: 9781472149503

Verlag: Robinson, 2026

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From one of the world's foremost neuroscientists and acclaimed author of Descartes' Error comes a bold new theory of the origins - and consequences - of human consciousness.

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ANTONIO DAMASIO is David Dornsife Professor of Neuroscience, Psychology and Philosophy, and director of the Brain and Creativity Institute at the University of Southern California, Los Angeles. Considered one of the most eminent scientists of our time, he has made fundamental contributions to the understanding of brain processes and their relationship to emotions and consciousness. He holds honorary doctorates from several top universities, and is a member of some of the world's most prestigious scientific academies. He has received numerous awards and has discussed his research in books such as Descartes' Error, The Sensation of What Happens, Looking for Spinoza, And the Brain Created Man and The Strange Order of Things.

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A masterful synthesis of neuroscience, philosophy and evolutionary biology, transforming how we understand what it means to be conscious, alive and human.

The age-old mystery of consciousness - our capacity to experience our own existence and have a sense of ourselves - remains unsolved despite the extensive efforts of neurobiologists and philosophers. What if the secret to consciousness lies not in abstract thought, but in the very feelings that pulse beneath our awareness?

In this groundbreaking work, renowned neuroscientist Antonio Damasio overturns centuries of thinking about consciousness by demonstrating how it emerges not from the highest functions of the brain but from the humble functions of the nervous system. Damasio shares his cutting-edge research on human neurology and psychology, and explains how brain, mind and body come together to generate consciousness.

He explores the profound implications for understanding human creativity, morality and culture - and confronts the existential questions raised by the extraordinary new capabilities of artificial intelligence, in an impassioned defence of human consciousness as a unique force which must be understood and valued if we are to progress as a society.

ANTONIO DAMASIO is David Dornsife Professor of Neuroscience, Psychology and Philosophy, and director of the Brain and Creativity Institute at the University of Southern California, Los Angeles.

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From one of the world's foremost neuroscientists and acclaimed author of Descartes' Error comes a bold new theory of the origins - and consequences - of human consciousness.

Throughout his illustrious decades-long career, Antonio Damasio has been at the leading edge of science's enduring quest to unravel the mysteries of the human mind. Now, drawing on a lifetime of groundbreaking research as well as the newest findings of neurobiology, Damasio seeks to move the conversation about the origins of consciousness from the world of high-level cognition and abstract reasoning into the wondrous realm of interoception - the human body's own internal monitoring system.

At the heart of his argument is the revolutionary idea that homeostatic feelings - those primal sensations intrinsically tied to our survival such as hunger, thirst and pain - are the foundation of conscious experience, not only central to the body's effort to maintain its physical wellbeing but carrying with them the initial glimmers of subjectivity, the very first sense of a 'self.' Here Damasio redefines consciousness as a natural solution to the problem of regulation in complex, vulnerable organisms and along the way wrestles with the notion of sentience in plants and bacteria; considers the social phenomena of politics, religion and commerce through the perspective of homeostasis; and addresses the rise and risks of artificial intelligence and its mimicry of the conscious mind.

A probing synthesis of neurobiology, evolutionary science and philosophy from one of the most notable leaders in his field, Natural Intelligence & the Logic of Consciousness offers readers a scientifically rigorous and deeply profound re-examination of what it means to be alive and aware.

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• Verlag: Robinson
• Erscheinungsdatum: 2026
• Sprache: Englisch
• ISBN 10: 1472149505
• ISBN 13: 9781472149503
• Einband: Gebundene Ausgabe
• Anzahl der Seiten: 256
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