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A leading neuroscientist addresses key questions about the origins and mechanisms of human consciousness, drawing on decades of research to challenge beliefs about the separateness of consciousness from the body while presenting a revisionist perspective built on traditional approaches. By the author of Descartes' Error. Simultaneous. Book available.

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Antonio Damasio is an internationally recognized leader in neuroscience. Since 2005 he is the director of the USC's Brain and Creativity Institute. Prior to that he was M.W. Van Allen Professor and head of neurology at University of Iowa Hospitals and Clinics. Damasio's books include Descartes' Error: Emotion, Reason and the Human Brain, The Feeling of What Happens: Body and Emotion in the Making of Consciousness, named one of the ten best books of the year by the New York Times Book Review, and Looking for Spinoza: Joy Sorrow, and the Feeling Brain.

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