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From feeling to knowing with Antonio Damasio
Category: Science & Medicine
Duration: 00:40:22
Publish Date: 2021-11-22 14:24:58
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In this episode of the Decision Corner, Brooke speaks with Antonio Damasio - David Dornsife Chair in Neuroscience at the University of Southern California and author of Feeling and Knowing: Making Minds Conscious.

Some of the topics discussed include:

- Why feelings are integral to our understanding of consciousness.

- The evolutionary origins of our nervous systems and eventually, our ability to have and regulate our feelings.

- How feelings have been overlooked in scientific explanations of consciousness, and why a paradigm shift is important.

- Challenges and opportunities around A.I. - how can we make robots have feelings?

- The importance of understanding the unique way human consciousness developed, and what it can teach us about our future selves, as well as our technological developments.
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