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9/100Critics
67/100Scholars
99/100Author:
António Damásio
Publisher:
Pantheon
Date:
October 26, 2021
The director of the Brain and Creativity Institute at the University of Southern California, Los Angeles explores how biology, neuroscience, psychology and artificial intelligence have given us the tools to unlock the mysteries of human consciousness.
What The Reviewers Say
... a grand synthesis of how sensing, emotion, and rational thinking cooperate to elucidate the biological roots of consciousness. Forty-eight brief and provocative chapters provide much to consider. Is it too much to call this latest book magisterial?.
Each of these mini-chapters reads rather like a prose poem—often soaring to lyrical heights, though sometimes weighted down by bits of neuroscientific argot. 'Focused,' though, is not the mot juste for it: Despite its brevity, it can be meandering and repetitious.
... a short but definitely not superficial investigation of consciousness, widely but wrongly looked on as mysterious.
... erudite yet accessible.
