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Friday, May 20, 2011

Digging into our consciousness

USC's Dr. Antonio Damasio's latest work, 'Self Comes to Mind,' explores how consciousness evolved and how it contributes to our culture.

May 13, 2011|By Eryn Brown, Los Angeles Times
Dr. Antonio Damasio, a neuroscientist and director of the Brain and Creativity Institute at USC, is best known for his pioneering work on how the brain generates emotion and how emotion, in turn, helps people make decisions. His books "Descartes' Error" and "Looking for Spinoza" were international bestsellers. His latest work, "Self Comes to Mind," extends his theories and adds new facts to the ever-vexing question of consciousness — what it is, why it evolved and how it contributes to human culture.
Damasio discussed these ideas with The Times.
What is consciousness?
It's this ability that we have to look out on the world and grasp it. It is a way evolution found to increase our effectiveness in dealing with life and its struggles.

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