The superb researcher, humanist, and author of Descartes Error binds the body to the spirit in an exploration of consciousness The publication of this book is an event in the making. All over the world scientists, psychologists, and philosophers are waiting to read Antonio Damasios new theory of the nature of consciousness and the construction of the self. A renowned and revered scientist and clinician, Damasio has spent decades following amnesiacs down hospital corridors, waiting for comatose patients to awaken, and devising ingenious research using PET scans to piece together the great puzzle of consciousness.
• COVER: The New Map Of The Brain - There are uncharted worlds inside your head, but science is drawing a map • The Mystery of Consciousness - You exist, right? Prove it. How 100 billion jabbering neurons create the knowledge--or illusion--that you're here • The Power of Hope - We say "Sweet dreams" when we induce general anesthesia--but nobody dreams. Consciousness stops. With anesthesia, however, we know how to undo the spell. REUPLOAD NEEDED
This book is about people who are vitally aware of their own need to learn, and to apply that learning to the process of facilitating other people’s learning. It is a book about change, not in the sense that change is an isolated singularity, or a string of isolated singularities, that might suddenly enter the stream of consciousness; but of change being the nature of that stream of consciousness. As we live we are in a continuing process of transformation, engaging in a form of thinking that is transformatory, and that transforms our social practices.
Articles about mind power, self-growth, spirituality and spiritual awakening. These articles were published in the by-weekly ezine “Consciousness and Success” issues 1-10
