Self Comes to Mind: Constructing the Conscious Brain, 2011, 384 pages, Antonio Damasio, 1446493857,9781446493854, Random House, 2011.

Winner of the CORINE International Book Award 2011 From one of the most important neuroscientists atwork 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 hasspent the past thirty years studying and writing about how the brain operates, and his work has garneredacclaim for its singular melding of the scientific and the humanistic. In Self Comes to Mind, he goes againstthe long-standing idea that consciousness is somehow separate from the body, presenting compelling newscientific evidence that consciousness - what we think of as a mind with a self - is in fact a biological processcreated by a living organism. The result is a groundbreaking investigative journey into the neurobiologicalfoundations of mind and self.

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Self Comes to Mind: Constructing the Conscious Brain

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