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Tuesday, April 17. 2018

Consciousness

From a review of Antonio Damasio's new book on consciousness:



 Damasio does not view consciousness and culture as resulting from some additive ingredient unique to human beings: reason, logic, or language. In this story, a form of awareness appears in all animals equipped with nervous systems. Differences in animal mental life emerge with increasing anatomical complexity. Human beings are sophisticated, feeling, affective, social body-subjects who may speak, write, make art, and build technologies, but we share the homeostatic impulse with all other living things.


Posted by Dr. Joy Bliss in Psychology, and Dr. Bliss at 13:21 | Comments (2) | Trackbacks (0)

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Consciousness is an event that is the confluence of perception and memory.
#1 Len Faria on 2018-04-18 12:27 (Reply)
"His [Aristotle] discussion centres on the kinds of souls possessed by different kinds of living things, distinguished by their different operations. Thus plants have the capacity for nourishment and reproduction, the minimum that must be possessed by any kind of living organism. Lower animals have, in addition, the powers of sense-perception and self-motion (action) Humans have all these as well as intellect."

Aristotle, "On the Soul", ca. 350 B.C.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/On_the_Soul

This logically leads to Dualism and Vitalism. Not to worry though as those two pernicious doctrines have been thoroughly discredited by many luminaries because reasons.
#2 Roy Lofquist on 2018-04-18 14:04 (Reply)

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