Consciousness begins when brains acquire the power, the simple power I must add, of telling a story.

- Antonio Damasio

The problem that we, as living organisms, face - and not we only, humans, but any living organism faces - is the management of life.

- Antonio Damasio

I got interested in the emotions after studying patients who had lost the ability to emote and feel under certain circumstances. Many of those patien…

- Antonio Damasio

We all woke up this morning and we had with it the amazing return of our conscious mind. We recovered minds with a complete sense of self and a compl…

- Antonio Damasio

Emotion consists of a very well orchestrated set of alterations in the body that has, as a general purpose, making life more survivable by taking car…

- Antonio Damasio

The self is a perpetually recreated neurobiological state.

- Antonio Damasio

A mind is so closely shaped by the body and destined to serve it that only one mind could possibly arise in it. No body, never mind.

- Antonio Damasio

There is no such thing as a disembodied mind. The mind is implanted in the brain, and the brain is implanted in the body.

- Antonio Damasio

Rather than being a luxury, emotions are a very intelligent way of driving an organism toward certain outcomes.

- Antonio Damasio