Why does consciousness also emerge from our senses?

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Antonio Damasio © Odile Jacob

By: Caroline Lachowsky

50 mins

Why does consciousness also emerge from our senses?

Meeting with the famous neuroscientist and philosopher Antonio Damasio who highlighted the key role of feelings and emotions in our behavior ...

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Are we asking about consciousness?

Awareness of self and others.

An incredible faculty of living beings in general and of humans in particular, which remains a great mystery.

It is precisely this mystery of consciousness that our guest seeks to shed light on, the eminent neuroscientist and philosopher

Alain Damasio, 

director of the Brain and Creativity Institute, internationally recognized for his work and his discoveries on the key role of emotions and feelings. in our behavior.

Why does consciousness also emerge from our senses?

With

Antonio Damasio,

 for his work 

Feeling and knowing, a new theory of consciousness

published by Odile Jacob.

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