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I Feel, Therefore I Am: Neuroscientist Antonio Damasio the Consciousness of the Body

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I Feel, Therefore I Am: Neuroscientist Antonio Damasio the Consciousness of the Body
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“Ultimately, we are puppets of both pain and pleasure, occasionally made free by our creativity.”

“A purely disembodied emotion is a nonentity,” William James wrote in his revolutionary theory of how our bodies affect our feelings just before the birth of neuroscience — a science still young, which has already revolutionized our understanding of the cosmos inside the cranium as much as the first century of telescopic astronomy revolutionized our understanding of ou

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