More may have been learned about the brain and the mind in the 1990s - the so-called decade of the brain - than during the entire previous history of psychology and neuroscience.
Antonio DamasioWe are not passive exhibitors of visual or auditory or tactile images. We have selves. We have a Me that is automatically present in our minds right now.
Antonio DamasioA 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 DamasioHow can you have this reference point, this stability, that is required to maintain the continuity of selves day after day?
Antonio DamasioThe emotion is the execution of a very complex program of actions. Some actions that are actually movements, like movement that you can do, change your face for example, in fear, or movements that are internal, that happen in your heart or in your gut, and movements that are actually not muscular movements, but rather, releases of molecules.
Antonio Damasio