#Antonio Damasio

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“The immune system, the hypothalamus, the ventro-medial frontal cortices, and the Bill of Rights have the same root cause.” ― Antonio Damasio

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We aren't thinking machines that feel; rather, we are feeling machines that think.

Antonio Damasio

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« Sometimes we use our minds not to discover facts, but to hide them. We use part of the mind as a screen to prevent another part of it from sensing what goes on elsewhere. […] One of the things the screen hides most effectively is the body, our own body, by which I mean the ins and outs of it, its interiors. Like a veil thrown over the skin to secure its modesty, the screen partially removes from the mind the inner states of the body, those that constitute the flow of life as it wanders in the journey of each day.

The alleged vagueness, elusiveness, and intangibility of emotions and feelings are probably symptoms of this fact, an indication of how we cover the representation of our bodies, of how much mental imagery based on nonbody objects and events masks the reality of the body. Otherwise we would easily know that emotions and feelings are tangibly about the body. Sometimes we use our minds to hide a part of our being from another part of our being. »

— António Damásio, The Feeling of What Happens: Body and Emotion in the Making of Consciousness exhaled-spirals

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Book of the Day - Descartes’ Error

Today’s Book of the Day is Descartes’ Error, written by Antonio Damasio in 2005 and published by Penguin Books. Antonio Damasio is a Portuguese-American researcher, neuroscientist, and author. He is currently the David Dornsife Chair in Neuroscience, as well as a Professor of Psychology, Philosophy, and Neurology, at the University of Southern California, and an adjunct professor at the Salk…

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Antonio Damasio、自传式自我、 AI

秦轩和我提到有人推荐了 Antonio Damasio 这个人的研究。我就提了四个问题给 AI 1. 介绍一下 Antonio Damasio 这个人 2. 详细讲讲他对公共领域有关情感、道德和社会政策的探讨 3. 介绍一下《感觉到的自我》的核心观点，论述过程，每个章节的内容，以及重要创新和人们的评价 4. 有什么其他人对他观点的论述介绍的书籍吗？更合适作为初级读物入门的 觉得 deepseek 确实很不错了。但 Chatgpt 还是不可替代。所以这每月例钱还是不能少。 发这个当然主要是因为 Antonio Damasio…

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Antonio Damasio – Olan Biteni Hissetmek (2024)

Yenilikçi bilimsel düşünme şekli ve net ifade biçimiyle tanınan Antonio Damasio, bu kitabında en derinlerde yatan soruları ve yanıtlarını ele alarak bilinç konusuna yeni bir anlayış getiriyor: Ne bildiğimizi nasıl biliyoruz? Bilinç kazanmış insan zihninde benlik algısı nasıl oluşuyor? Beyin hasarı bulunan hastalara yıllar boyunca çareler sunan yetenekli tıp doktoru Damasio, ‘Descartes’ın…

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Emoções: aliadas ou adversárias?

Neste texto, exploramos a influência das emoções na nossa vida e como podem, em alguns casos, nos sabotar. Com base nas ideias do Dr. Antonio Damásio, discutimos a diferença entre emoções primárias e secundárias e como elas nos afetam.

Prefere ouvir? Dê o play! Você já se perguntou como suas emoções afetam as escolhas que fazemos diariamente? Ou como, em certas ocasiões, as emoções parecem nos desviar do que realmente queremos? As emoções são parte essencial de nossas vidas. As emoções estão presentes em cada diálogo, cada decisão, cada interação que temos. Elas influenciam nosso comportamento e a maneira como interpretamos…

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I feel, therefore I am

Leading neuroscientist António Damásio speaks on human consciousness May 11, 2023

"Consciousness, the recognition of the self and awareness of oneself in one’s surroundings, is a process scholars have long struggled to understand. Because scientists have historically regarded reason as a virtue of value, while viewing emotion as less dignified, people were desperate to believe that consciousness is housed in the brain’s highest form of thinking."

"Damásio’s top-bottom understanding of consciousness poses implications for our understanding of AI machine limitations like ChatGPT. The chatbot can produce written work—like essays, short stories, and poems—at a moment’s notice, leading some to argue that it can functionally replace human creative writers. As Damásio argues, consciousness arises from feeling, and our ability to feel is intrinsic to the production of literature. How, then, can an unfeeling and unconscious entity actually portray the human experience as it is? It may explain why ChatGPT passed many rigorous exams with flying colors, except for two: English language and literature.

 “Do you need consciousness for language? No,” Damásio said. “But in order to use language consciously, in order to use it creatively, we definitely need to be conscious.”

READ MORE https://dailynexus.com/2023-05-11/i-feel-therefore-i-am-leading-neuroscientist-antonio-damasio-speaks-on-human-consciousness/

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“The self is a repeatedly reconstructed biological state.” ― Antonio R. Damasio, Descartes' Error: Emotion, Reason and the Human Brain

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«La idea cartesiana de una mente incorpórea puede haber sido muy bien la fuente –a mediados del siglo veinte- de la metáfora de la mente como software. De hecho, si la mente pudiera separarse del cuerpo, podría ser entendida sin recurrir a la neurobiología y sería innecesario verse influido por conocimientos de neuroanatomía, neurofisiología y neuroquímica. Es interesante, y paradójico, que muchos científicos de la cognición –que creen poder investigar la mente y no necesitar la neurobiología- no se consideren dualistas.»

Antonio R. Damasio: El error de Descartes. Editorial Andrés Bello, págs. 278-279. Santiago de Chile, 1996.

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Antonio Damasio, Descarte's Error: Emotion, Reason, and the Human Brain

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Attention as the Sculptor of Reality: A Neurophilosophical Inquiry into Awareness, Culture, and Self-Transformation

The nature of attention determines the structure of our lived world. Attention is not a passive receptacle through which reality merely passes but an active force shaping how experience is constituted, knowledge is structured, and the self is constructed. Photo by Tara Winstead on Pexels.com In both Buddhist and Stoic traditions, attention occupies a central psychological and ethical role, one…

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Why Am I This Way - Psychology Answers

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“How Am I” Section

“Why is it always me? Why does it always happen to me?”

What happens in the unconscious brain: 

thi is a question that we have all asked ourselves at least once in our life, but for some people with more pessimist self image and personality, this becomes recurrent and a defense whenever an event happens in their life

In psychology, this is a type of negative thought that comes from depressive symptomatology. it starts with “Bad things are always happening”, to “This happens only to me and never the others'' and finished with “it's probably my fault”

the person tends to have a very low self esteem and these thoughts quickly go from “It’s not that the world is a bad place, is that i am useless and cannot do things right”

this typeof thought really comes from the inner guilt, shame and depression

whereas the act of always blaming others and the world comes from underlying unconscious anger and injustice.

in these moments, feelings become so hard to process and often, we forget that we are people who can rationalize things

but of course everyone needs to go at their own pace

Damasio, showed that our brain is influenced strongly by emotions compared to rationality. we always process the emotions before (unless there’s an underlying condition in the prefrontal lobe that disturbs the emotional processing of the brain).

Thankfully, the pessimistic person is wrong. There's nothing wrong with them. it's simply your brain processing emotions first. now you have to simply embarrass those before rationalizing the event and engage in positive thinking 

if you are interested in more of this topics you can check the works of Martin Seligman, Antonio Damasio and Emmy Van Deurzen

So what can we do?

It seems totally stupid but trying to become more positive by shifting the way we think and slowly using that in our daily life.

So okay, something bad happened. instead of thinking “fuck, its my fault, i a useless, it halways happens to me”, try with “Okay this is a bad thing that happened, it makes me sad, but it also provides experience so i know what to do next time it happens”

By changing thought patterns into something more positive, you will be able to see your perception of the world change without the necessity of needing to be reborn again

Embrace life as it is

implies daring to welcome inevitable suffering, anxiety and guilt as an intrinsic part of existence

anxiety and guilt is something that will always accompany us in our life, but it motivate us to look deep inside of us in order to understand the authentic self and change into something more healthy

Now, you know where to work to become a better version of yourself 

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When it comes to making solid decisions, emotions aren't inherently bad. They can be useful markers for making the correct choice. Antonio Damasio, a neuroscientist at the University of Southern California, has found that the absence of emotion the actual clinical inability to experience emotion caused by lesions to an area of the brain called the VMPFC, the ventromedial prefrontal cortex can cause people to go broke on a gambling task. Not caring about the negative emotional effects of large losses, they don't learn to distinguish the better decisions and instead go for the larger wins and larger swings. Likewise, Norbert Schwarz and Gerald Clore, social psychologists who spent multiple decades studying the varying effects of mood on our thoughts and outcomes, have argued that in the right context, emotions can be powerful drivers of correct choice: the emotion just needs to be integral to the decision, rather than incidental to it. Touching a hot stove makes you feel pain and anger - and you avoid touching the stove in the future. By anticipating the negative emotion caused by pain, you make a more prudent choice the next time around. We experience emotions for a reason, and the goal is not to stop experiencing them. Instead, the goal is to learn to identify our emotions, analyse their cause, and if they're not actually part of our rational decision process - and more often than not, they aren't dismiss them as sources of information.

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Antonio Damasio, Descarte's Error: Emotion, Reason, and the Human Brain