Self Comes to Mind by Damasio, Antonio -- Read -- Imperial Library of Trantor

Index

About the Book Also by Antonio Damasio Title Page Dedication Epigraph PART I / STARTING OVER 1. Awakening

Goals and Reasons Approaching the Problem The Self as Witness Overcoming a Misleading Intuition An Integrated Perspective The Framework A Preview of Main Ideas Life and the Conscious Mind

2. From Life Regulation to Biological Value

The Implausibility of Reality Natural Will Staying Alive The Origins of Homeostasis Cells, Multicellular Organisms, and Engineered Machines Biological Value Biological Value in Whole Organisms The Success of Our Early Forerunners Developing Incentives Connecting Homeostasis, Value, and Consciousness

PART II / WHAT’S IN A BRAIN THAT A MIND CAN BE? 3. Making Maps and Making Images

Maps and Images Cutting Below the Surface Maps and Minds The Neurology of Mind The Beginnings of Mind Closer to the Making of Mind?

4. The Body in Mind

The Topic of the Mind Body Mapping From Body to Brain Representing Quantities and Constructing Qualities Primordial Feelings Mapping Body States and Simulating Body States The Source of an Idea The Body-Minded Brain

5. Emotions and Feelings

Situating Emotion and Feeling Defining Emotion and Feeling Triggering and Executing Emotions The Strange Case of William James Feelings of Emotion How Do We Feel an Emotion? The Timing of Emotions and Feelings The Varieties of Emotion Up and Down the Emotional Range An Aside on Admiration and Compassion

6. An Architecture for Memory

Somehow, Somewhere The Nature of Memory Records Dispositions Came First, Maps Followed Memory at Work A Brief Aside on Kinds of Memory A Possible Solution to the Problem More on Convergence-Divergence Zones The Model at Work The How and Where of Perception and Recall

PART III / BEING CONSCIOUS 7. Consciousness Observed

Defining Consciousness Breaking Consciousness Apart Removing the Self and Keeping a Mind Completing a Working Definition Kinds of Consciousness Human and Nonhuman Consciousness What Consciousness Is Not The Freudian Unconscious

8. Building a Conscious Mind

A Working Hypothesis Approaching the Conscious Brain Previewing the Conscious Mind The Ingredients of a Conscious Mind The Protoself Constructing the Core Self The Core Self State Touring the Brain as It Constructs a Conscious Mind

9. The Autobiographical Self

Memory Made Conscious Constructing the Autobiographical Self The Issue of Coordination The Coordinators A Possible Role for the Posteromedial Cortices The PMCs at Work Other Considerations on the Posteromedial Cortices A Closing Note on the Pathologies of Consciousness

10. Putting It Together

By Way of Summary The Neurology of Consciousness The Anatomical Bottleneck Behind the Conscious Mind From the Ensemble Work of Large Anatomical Divisions to the Work of Neurons When We Feel Our Perceptions Qualia I Qualia II Qualia and Self Unfinished Business

PART IV / LONG AFTER CONSCIOUSNESS 11. Living with Consciousness

Why Consciousness Prevailed Self and the Issue of Control An Aside on the Unconscious A Note on the Genomic Unconscious The Feeling of Conscious Will Educating the Cognitive Unconscious Brain and Justice Nature and Culture Self Comes to Mind The Consequences of a Reflective Self

Appendix Notes Acknowledgments Index Copyright