Self Comes to Mind: Constructing the Conscious Brain

by António R. Damásio

Book Overview

A leading neuroscientist explores with authority, with imagination, and with unparalleled mastery how the brain constructs the mind and how the brain makes that mind conscious. Antonio Damasio has spent the past thirty years researching and and revealing how the brain works. Here, in his most ambitious and stunning work yet, he rejects the long-standing idea that consciousness is somehow separate from the body, and presents compelling new scientific...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 030747495X
• ISBN13: 9780307474957
• Release Date: March 2012
• Publisher: Vintage
• Length: 416 Pages
• Weight: 0.91 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 5.3" x 8.0"