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The Strange Order of Things is a pathbreaking investigation into homeostasis, the condition of that regulates human physiology within the range that makes possible not only the survival but also the flourishing of life. Antonio Damasio makes clear that we descend biologically, psychologically, and even socially from a long lineage that begins with single living cells; that our minds and cultures are linked by an invisible thread to the ways and means of ancient unicellular life and other primitive life-forms; and that inherent in our very chemistry is a powerful force, a striving toward life maintenance that governs life in all its guises, including the development of genes that help regulate and transmit life. In The Strange Order of Things, Damasio gives us a new way of comprehending the world and our place in it.
In the seventeenth century, the philosopher Spinoza examined the role emotion played in human survival and culture. Yet, the neurobiological roots of joy and sorrow remained a mystery. Today, we spend countless resources doctoring our feelings with alcohol, prescription drugs, health clubs, therapy, vacation retreats, and other sorts of consumption; yet the inner workings of our minds—what feelings are, how they work, and what they mean—are still largely an unexplored frontier.
Here, bestselling author and distinguished scientist Antonio Demasio concludes the groundbreaking trilogy he began with Descartes’ Error by drawing on his innovative research and experience with neurological patients to examine the cerebral processes of human emotion. With scientific expertise and “a flair for writing,” he navigates the neurology of feelings (The New York Review of Books).
“Damasio has the rare talent of rendering science intelligible while also being gifted in philosophy, literature and wit.” —Margaret Jacob, Los Angeles Times
“Exceptionally engaging and profoundly gratifying . . . Achieves a unique combination of scientific exposition, historical discovery and deep personal statement regarding the human condition.” —Nature
“Damasio . . . succeeds in making the latest brain research accessible to the general reader, while his passionate Spinozist reflections make that data relevant to everyday life.” —Publishers Weekly
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 evidence that posits an evolutionary perspective. His view entails a radical change in the way the history of the conscious mind is viewed and told, suggesting that the brain’s development of a human self is a challenge to nature’s indifference. This development helps to open the way for the appearance of culture, perhaps one of our most defining characteristics as thinking and self-aware beings.
Para pensar bem e tomar decisões corretas é preciso manter a cabeça fria e afastar todos os sentimentos e emoções, certo? Errado. Neste livro surpreendente e polêmico, o neurologista António Damásio mostra como, na verdade, a ausência de emoção e sentimento pode destruir a racionalidade. Utilizando-se de inovadoras descobertas da neurobiologia, Damásio desafia os dualismos tradicionais do pensamento ocidental - mente e corpo, razão e emoção, explicações biológicas e explicações culturais - para oferecer uma visão científica e integrada do ser humano e sugerir hipóteses surpreendentes sobre o funcionamento do cérebro humano.
Escrito por um dos neurocientistas mais proeminentes da atualidade, este livro traz uma reflexão divisora de águas, que abrange as ciências biológicas e sociais, oferecendo uma nova maneira de entender as origens da vida, os sentimentos e a cultura.
António Damásio apresenta aqui uma pesquisa inovadora sobre a homeostase, uma coleção de fenômenos que regula a fisiologia humana por meio de mecanismos que possibilitam não apenas a nossa sobrevivência, mas também o florescer da vida. O neurocientista português torna claro que descendemos de uma longa linhagem que tem início nos organismos unicelulares, ou seja, que nossas mentes e culturas são ligadas por um fio invisível aos modos e propósitos de seres unicelulares muito antigos; e que é inerente a nossa própria química uma força poderosa, uma luta pela manutenção da vida que a governa em todos os seus aspectos, inclusive no desenvolvimento dos genes que ajudam a regular e a transmitir a vida. Em A estranha ordem das coisas Damásio nos oferece uma nova maneira de compreender o mundo e o nosso lugar nele.
"Este é um livro fundamental. Ele oferece os conceitos, a linguagem e o conhecimento para explicar as interações entre natureza e cultura no cerne da condição humana. [...] é o começo de uma nova revolução científica." — Manuel Castells, professor de sociologia na Universidade da Califórnia, Berkeley
¿Cómo puede nuestra mente llegar a conocer? ¿Cómo podemos tener sensación y consciencia del ser? ¿De qué manera se produce la transición de la ignorancia y la inconsciencia al conocimiento y a la identidad del ser? Éstas son las preguntas que plantea y responde en este libro Antonio Damasio, uno de los mayores expertos mundiales en neurología.
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