looking for damasio

"in the absense of consciousness in the comprehensive sense of the term—a process that includes both the movie-in-the-brain and the sense of self—we know for certain that life cannot be properly managed" (Looking for Spinoza, p. 207).

Damasio gives horrific examples of patients with brain damage who are perfectly intelligent but incapable of functioning in the world because they are disconnected from their feelings.

This is his idea that most of what the brain is working on is body stuff. The body stuff guides us from survival to planning ahead, even to social stuff.