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Antonio Damasio

University Professor and David Dornsife Professor of Neuroscience · University of Southern California

Los Angeles, CAWebsite

Research Areas

ConsciousnessEmotion & AffectNeuroscience

About

Neuroscientist who developed the somatic marker hypothesis, showing how emotions and feelings are central to decision-making and consciousness. His work bridges neuroscience with the philosophy of self and feeling.

Publications

  • Descartes' Error: Emotion, Reason, and the Human Brain
  • The Feeling of What Happens: Body and Emotion in the Making of Consciousness
  • Self Comes to Mind: Constructing the Conscious Brain
  • Feeling & Knowing: Making Minds Conscious

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Higher-Order Theories of Consciousness (HOT)

Rosenthal and Lau's framework proposing consciousness requires higher-order mental representations about our own mental states.

Orchestrated Objective Reduction (Orch OR)

Penrose and Hameroff's quantum theory proposing consciousness arises from gravitational self-collapse in neuronal microtubules.

Neural Correlates of Consciousness (NCC)

The search for the minimal neuronal mechanisms jointly sufficient for any one specific conscious percept.

Idealism in Philosophy of Mind

Bernardo Kastrup's analytical idealism and the philosophical tradition arguing consciousness is fundamental, not matter.

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