In ihrem tiefgründigen und bahnbrechenden Buch erzählen Hanna und Antonio Damasio, zwei der weltweit führenden Neuro-Wissenschaftler, die Geschichte des Bewusstseins und des menschlichen Geists. Sie stellen sich den zwei Fragen, die Philosophen, Neurologen, Psychologen und Kognitionswissenschaftler seit Jahrhunderten quält: Wie schafft das Hirn den Geist und wie kommt der Geist zu Bewusstsein? Ein wunderschön geschriebenes Buch, das uns verrät, wie der menschliche Geist funktioniert und uns einen Blick auf die Wurzel unserer fundamentalsten Konzepte - Selbst, Identität, Persönlichkeit und Selbstbild - erlaubt.

Informationen zum Autor ANTONIO DAMASIO is University Professor, David Dornsife Professor of Neuroscience, Psychology, and Neurology, and director of the Brain and Creativity Institute at the University of Southern California. Damasio's other books include Descartes' Error ; The Feeling of What Happens ; and Looking for Spinoza . He has received the Honda Prize, the Prince of Asturias Award for Technical and Scientific Research, and, shared with his wife Hanna, the Pessoa, Signoret, and Cozzarelli prizes. Damasio is a fellow of the Institute of Medicine of the National Academy of Sciences, the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, the Bavarian Academy of Sciences, and the European Academy of Sciences and Arts. He lives in Los Angeles. Klappentext Subtitled, "Constructing The Conscious Brain". Tells the story of consciousness and the human mind, from one of the world's leading neuroscientists. Presents new scientific evidence that consciousness is in fact a biological process created by the brain. With fascinating and moving human stories. Zusammenfassung In Self Comes to Mind, world-renowned neuroscientist Antonio Damasio goes against the long-standing idea that consciousness is separate from the body, presenting compelling new scientific evidence that consciousness - what we think of as a mind with a self - is in fact a biological process created by a living organism.

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ANTONIO DAMASIO is University Professor, David Dornsife Professor of Neuroscience, Psychology, and Neurology, and director of the Brain and Creativity Institute at the University of Southern California. Damasio's other books include Descartes' Error; The Feeling of What Happens; and Looking for Spinoza. He has received the Honda Prize, the Prince of Asturias Award for Technical and Scientific Research, and, shared with his wife Hanna, the Pessoa, Signoret, and Cozzarelli prizes. Damasio is a fellow of the Institute of Medicine of the National Academy of Sciences, the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, the Bavarian Academy of Sciences, and the European Academy of Sciences and Arts. He lives in Los Angeles.

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Subtitled, "Constructing The Conscious Brain". Tells the story of consciousness and the human mind, from one of the world's leading neuroscientists. Presents new scientific evidence that consciousness is in fact a biological process created by the brain. With fascinating and moving human stories.

Zusammenfassung
In Self Comes to Mind, world-renowned neuroscientist Antonio Damasio goes against the long-standing idea that consciousness is separate from the body, presenting compelling new scientific evidence that consciousness - what we think of as a mind with a self - is in fact a biological process created by a living organism.