FEELING IS EVERYTHING – “Antonio Damasio”
A category of experience that stores the knowledge of time, space and mass that precedes cognitive understanding. The feeling.
How did humans become humans – and how did everything come about that we call culture? The world-famous neuroscientist Antonio Damasio has an astonishing explanation: It was not mind and intellect, but feelings that played the decisive role. A new, exciting look at the foundations of human civilisation.
The book “The Strange Order of Things” is a pathbreaking investigation into homeostasis, the condition of that regulates human physiology within the range that makes possible not only the survival but also the flourishing of life.
Antonio Damasio makes clear that we descend biologically, psychologically, and even socially from a long lineage that begins with single living cells; that our minds and cultures are linked by an invisible thread to the ways and means of ancient unicellular life and other primitive life-forms; and that inherent in our chemistry is a powerful force,(feeling) a striving toward life maintenance that governs life in all its guises, including the development of genes that help regulate and transmit life.
Forget ‘I think therefore I am’., Feelings are where consciousness begins. Without them, consciousness is impossible, consciousness is the result of the continued presence of homeostatic feelings. – with radical implications for the future of many life sciences, health, politics, biotech, education and AI.
Feelings illuminate all the other contents of the mind with the light of consciousness, both the plain events and the sublime ideas. Thanks to feelings, consciousness fuses the body and mind processes and gives ourselves a home inside that partnership. link
There is a need for a functional theory that can link the strategic modelling of our phylogenetic past with the ontogenetic appearance as it manifests itself in the human phenomenon. The spontaneous and automated reaction patterns stored in the organism throughout the evolutionary history of reacting. The Phylogenetic conditioned response stereotypes so that it serves the organism’s ability to survive, adapt and continue to function in its environment.
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