Damasio — Descartes’ Error
Book page: damasio-descartes-error
From: Quotes batch 3
Edition: Putnam (1994)
On Decision Making and Emotion
“Reason may not be as pure as most of us think it is or wish it were… emotions and feelings may not be intruders in the bastion of reason at all.” (Introduction, p. xii)
On Consciousness and the Body
“The mind exists in and for a whole organism; our minds would not be what they are if it were not for the interplay of body and brain.” (Chapter 10, p. 226)