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PT Book: Descartes' Error: Emotion, Reason and the Human Brain
Author: Antônio R. Damásio
Publishing company: CIA das Letras
Original title: Descartes' Error: Emotion, Reason and the Human Brain
Antonio Damásio, neuroscientist director of the Brain and Creativity Institute and holder of the David Dornsife Chair of Neuroscience, Psychology and Neurology at the University of Southern California, Los Angeles, United States.
To think well and make correct decisions, you need to keep a cool head and remove all feelings and emotions, right? Wrong.
In Descartes' Error, the author shows how, in fact, the absence of emotions and feelings can destroy rationality.
With the support of recent discoveries in neurobiology — an area of biological research focused on the specific life experiences of humans. It covers the study of the nervous system and the functioning of the brain, to better understand brain activity and the brain areas responsible for its functions (www.ecycle.com.br).
The author challenges the traditional dualisms of Western thought — mind and body, reason and feeling — and cultural explanations to offer an integrated scientific view of the human being, suggesting innovative hypotheses about how the brain works.
It's worth delving deeper into the story of Phineas P. Gage, biological regulation and survival, emotions and feelings, and much more.
SUMMARY
Antonio Damásio, renowned neuroscientist, challenges the notion that making correct decisions requires the suppression of emotions and feelings.
In his book “Descartes' Error”, he argues that the absence of these elements can harm rationality. Based on recent discoveries in neurobiology, he proposes an integrated view of the human being, questioning traditional dualisms and offering new hypotheses about how the brain works.
The story of Phineas P. Gage and other themes related to biological regulation, survival, and emotions are explored in his work.
It is worth reading!