Self Comes to Mind explores two questions that have haunted philosophers, neurologists, cognitive scientists & psychologists for centuries: how do brains construct minds, & how do minds become conscious?
Antonio Damasio has spent the past thirty years studying & writing about how the brain operates, & his work has garnered acclaim for its singular melding of the scientific & the humanistic. In this revelatory work, he debunks the long-standing idea that consciousness is somehow separate from the body, presenting astounding new scientific evidence that consciousness