70 Quotes by Antonio Damasio

We are not thinking machines that feel; rather, we are feeling machines that think.

I believe that it is made out of the same cloth of mind, but it is an add-on, it was something that was specialized to create what we call the self. And it exists for very special purposes and it has very special, and I think by and large good consequences, although not only good consequences.

But whether we want to do it because we want to have people to have a different idea of who we are or not, we do it naturally. So the way we construct our narrative is different from the way we constructed it a year ago. The difference is maybe very small or it may be huge.

Feeling of an emotion is a process that is distinct from having the emotion in the first place. So it helps to understand what is an emotion, what is a feeling, we need to understand what is an emotion.

We may smile and the dog may wag the tail, but in essence, we have a set program and those programs are similar across individuals in the species.

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

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

Emotions are enmeshed in the neural networks of reason.

The self is a perpetually recreated neurobiological state.