And herein lies the paradox of the book's subtitle. He talks about "focusing" ability that improve people consciousness.We can very conscious (focused) in a particulare moment (such as making a cake :D) , but we don't necessarily deliberate for every single decision or movement...Please yosuke don't confuse consciousness and thought... they aren't exact synonimous.For more details watch damasio on big think site, about consciousness, free will and how control our minds... Dear Mr. or Ms. AnonymousThank you very much for your comment and letting me know the Big Think video, which I embedded in my video blog.http://yosukeyanase-video.blogspot.com/2011/10/antonio-damasio-consciousness-is-how-we.htmlYou're absolutely right when you say that consciousness isn't only deliberation. In Self Comes to Mind, he goes against the long-standing idea that consciousness is somehow separate from the body, presenting compelling new scientific evidence that consciousness—what we think of as a mind with a self—is to begin with a biological process created by a living organism. Speculation remained a CLM – a career-limiting move — for ambitious young researchers. Hence for Francis Crick, "you are nothing but a pack of neurons", free will is located in the cingulate gyrus, and consciousness in the claustrum – two small regions of the human brain's massive cerebral cortex. Other ideas equally central to his point of view had almost no influence on subsequent work, however. It is indeed the first time in many years for me to read an rigorous experimental study where dozens' of other experimental studies are specifically examined in a detailed way to produce another experiment for a very focused research question. Our brains enable our consciousness, just as our legs enable our walking, as the anthropologist Tim Ingold has pointed out. Readers fascinated from both a philosophical and scientific perspective with the question of the relationships among brain, mind, and self will be rewarded for making the effort to follow Damasio's arguments. It does. Part 3: Is art a spandrel? ciao yosuke matteo, Hi, Matteo TI was in Boston for American Association of Applied Linguistics and it took such a long time to respond. Constructing the Conscious Brain. hank you again for your advice. Self Comes to Mind Constructing the Conscious Brain (Book) : Damasio, Antonio R. : From one of the most significant neuroscientists at work today, a pathbreaking investigation of a question that has confounded philosophers, psychologists, and neuroscientists for centuries: how is consciousness created? Speculation remained a CLM – a career-limiting move — for ambitious young researchers. Antonio Damasio has spent the past thirty years researching and and revealing how the brain works. To Damasio this means that they are, or possess, selves. Start your 48-hour free trial to unlock this Mind, Self, and Society study guide. In Self Comes to Mind, he goes against the long-standing idea that consciousness is somehow separate from the body, presenting compelling new scientific evidence that consciousness—what we think of as a mind with a self—is to begin with a biological process created by a living organism. But consciousness emerges only when – to quote the book's title – self comes to mind, so that in key brain regions, the representational maps of sensory experience intersect with the encoded experiences of past that self provides. Thoughts, feelings, intentions, reasons – all are causally generated by brain processes, and it is these latter that do the real business. 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