In Descartes’ Error: Emotion, Reason and the Human Brain (1994), Antonio Damasio famously argued that Rene Descartes had helped to sustain an error in the western ...

As he has done previously, USC neuroscientist Damasio (Descartes' Error) explores the process that leads to consciousness. And as he has also done previously, he alternates between some exquisite ...

Neuroscientist Damasio (Descartes’ Error) sets out to demystify the nature of consciousness in this erudite yet accessible study. He proposes that human consciousness is built upon a series of ...

In his book "Descartes' Error", Antonio Damasio took issue with two aspects of Descartes's thought-his use of clockwork as a metaphor for the mind, and his statement of priorities: cogito ergo sum.

Right now Robert Sapolsky, professor of neuroendocrinology at Stanford University, is tackling Antonio Damasio’s Descartes’ Error (Avon, 1995), a “great ...