Antonio R. Damasio - Eroarea lui Descartes. Emotiile ratiunea creierul (engleza)

Autor: Antonio R. Damasio 

Titlu: Descartes' Error - Emotion, Reason, and the Human Brain

Editura: Avon Books

An aparitie: 1994 (Prima Editie)

Nr. pagini: 312

Limba engleza

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Descriere: Descartes' Error: Emotion, Reason, and the Human Brain is a 1994 book by neuroscientist António Damásio describing the physiology of rational thought and decision, and how the faculties could have evolved through Darwinian natural selection. Damásio refers to René Descartes' separation of the mind from the body (the mind/body dualism) as an error because reasoning requires the guidance of emotions and feelings conveyed from the body. Written for the layperson, Damásio incorporates data from multiple modern clinical cases, enumerating damaging cognitive effects when feelings and reasoning become anatomically decoupled. Among his experimental evidence and testable hypotheses, Damásio presents the "somatic marker hypothesis", a proposed mechanism by which emotions guide (or bias) behavior and decision-making, and positing that rationality requires emotional input. He argues that René Descartes' "error" was the dualist separation of mind and body, rationality and emotion.