Descartes' Error: Emotion, Reason, and the Human Brain by Antonio Damasio

Descartes' Error: Emotion, Reason, and the Human Brain

Antonio Damasio

312 pages first pub 1994 (editions)

nonfiction philosophy psychology science challenging informative reflective slow-paced

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Since Descartes famously proclaimed, I think, therefore I am, science has often overlooked emotions as the source of a person's true being. Even modern neuroscience has tended, until recently, to concentrate on the cognitive aspects of brain funct...

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