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  • The Feeling of What Happens, Damasio (1999)

    The Feeling of What Happens, Damasio (1999)

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    One difficulty in reviewing popular science is separating the power of the ideas from the communicative skill of the work. Antonio Damasio is among the most influential of this generation’s consciousness researchers. His notion that consciousness is the “feeling of what happens”—a body assessing its internal state, interacting with the environment, utilizing emotion as a…