The Feeling of What Happens Quotes

“We use our minds not to discover facts but to hide them. One of things the screen hides most effectively is the body, our own body, by which I mean, the ins and outs of it, its interiors. Like a veil thrown over the skin to secure its modesty, the screen partially removes from the mind the inner states of the body, those that constitute the flow of life as it wanders in the journey of each day. (p.28)”
― Antonio R. Damasio, The Feeling of What Happens: Body and Emotion in the Making of Consciousness

“...I sense that stepping into the light is also a powerful metaphor for consciousness, for the birth of the knowing mind, for the simple and yet momentous coming of the sense of self into the world of the mental.”
― Antonio Damasio, The Feeling of What Happens: Body and Emotion in the Making of Consciousness

“Our conscious experience normally includes a brief memory of what we sense as "the just before," which is attached to what we innocently think is the "now." That memory describes the sense of a self to whom some knowledge is being attributed.”
― António Damásio, The Feeling of What Happens: Body and Emotion in the Making of Consciousness

“We are obviously not awake during dream sleep and yet we have some consciousness of the events taking place in the mind. The memory we form of the last dream fragments before we wake up indicates that some consciousness was "on.”
― António Damásio, The Feeling of What Happens: Body and Emotion in the Making of Consciousness