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Descartes' Error: Emotion, Reason, and the Human Brain is a 1994 book by neuroscientist António Damásio describing the physiology of rational thought and decision, and how the faculties could have evolved through Darwinian natural selection. [1]
Antonio Damasio (Portuguese: António Damásio) is a Portuguese neuroscientist. He is currently the David Dornsife Chair in Neuroscience, as well as Professor of Psychology, Philosophy, and Neurology, at the University of Southern California , and, additionally, an adjunct professor at the Salk Institute . [ 1 ]
This saying is actually from the context of a larger work, in which Descartes clarifies that he believes the mind and body to be independent entities, and that the mind can hypothetically exist without the body.> Kindly see first Spinoza on Mind-Body. From Antonio Damasio's Descartes' Error—Emotion, Reason, and thr Human Brain;
The somatic marker hypothesis, formulated by Antonio Damasio and associated researchers, proposes that emotional processes guide (or bias) behavior, particularly decision-making. [1] [2] "Somatic markers" are feelings in the body that are associated with emotions, such as the association of rapid heartbeat with anxiety or of nausea with disgust ...
The somatic marker hypothesis (SMH), formulated by Antonio Damasio, proposes a mechanism by which emotional processes can guide (or bias) behavior, particularly decision-making. [ 9 ] [ 10 ] Emotions, as defined by Damasio, are changes in both body and brain states in response to different stimuli. [ 11 ]
Damasio's tri-level view of the human mind, which posits that we share the two lowest levels with other animals, has been suggested before. For example, see Dyer ( www.conscious-computation.webnode.com ). Dyer's triune expansion is compared to Damasio's- 1. sensorimotor stage (c.f. Damasio's Protoself) 2. spatiotemporal stage (Core-Consciousness)
Somatic theory is a theory of human social behavior based on the somatic marker hypothesis of António Damásio.The theory proposes a mechanism by which emotional processes can guide (or bias) behavior: in particular, decision-making, the attachment theory of John Bowlby, and the self-psychology of Heinz Kohut (especially as consolidated by Allan Schore).
Traditional dualists such as Descartes believed the mental and the physical to be two separate substances, or fundamental types of entities (hence "substance dualism"); some more recent dualists, however, accept only one substance, the physical, but state it has both mental and physical properties (hence "property dualism").