A review by greatgodbird
The Feeling of What Happens: Body and Emotion in the Making of Consciousness by Antonio Damasio

4.0

This book felt very specialised (and I will be stealing many impressive-sounding words), but this probably was just because I have no great knowledge of neurological matters. Damasio very excellently laid out points in a concoction of philosophy of being, feeling, and knowing, and neurocentric scientific terms that had my eyes glazing over. I appreciated this especially as it provided a starting point off which I can have baseline discussions on experienced phenomena through understandings of biological feeling, emotion, and consciousness. The book didn’t shy away from juicy claims that will sit nicely as quotes regarding what self contains and reaches, definitions of consciousness, and distinctions between feeling and emotion.