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Antonio Damasio
Award-winning neuroscientist
Antonio Damasio is an award-winning neuroscientist known for his pioneering work on emotions, intuitions and the biological origins of consciousness.
He is the author of several books including Descartes' Error and The Strange Order of Things. His most recent book Feeling & Knowing: Making Minds Conscious explores the origin and evolution of consciousness.
Antonio Damasio is an award-winning neuroscientist known for his pioneering work on emotions, intuitions and the biological origins of consciousness.
He is the author of several books including Descartes' Error and The Strange Order of Things. His most recent book Feeling & Knowing: Making Minds Conscious explores the origin and evolution of consciousness.
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Me, myself and others
Knowing what to believe
Free will: an impossible reality
What physicists get wrong about consciousness
The brain doesn't create consciousness
Are you responsible for your unconscious self?
The Dangers of Musk’s Neuralink
Moral responsibility without free will
Consciousness is the collapse of the wave function
Free will or no free will, punishment is justified
The impotence of reason
Schrödinger and the conscious universe
Why panpsychism is baloney
Imagination, consciousness and animal dreams
The free will debate has real-world consequences
Denis Noble: Free will is not an illusion
Consciousness may not require a brain
Big tech doesn’t want AI to become conscious
Pinker on the power of irrationality
Future AI in the therapist's chair
When are intuitions a good guide to reality?
Nietzsche: ignorance sets us free
Why Steven Pinker is wrong about rationality
The absurdity of mind as machine
Is rationality a fiction?
Brain noise doesn't explain consciousness
David Nutt: entropy explains consciousness
Bias doesn't always undermine truth
Brain vs Heart: a false dichotomy
Free will is an invention