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📘 The Feeling of What Happens by Antonio R. Damasio

"In this book, neuroscientist and humanist Antonio R. Damasio brings a lifetime of research and a literary gift to the last frontier of brain research - the mystery of consciousness. How is it that we know that we know? How is it that our conscious and private minds have a sense of self? These are the questions he considers in The Feeling of What Happens."--BOOK JACKET.

First publish date: September 1999

Authors: Antonio R. Damasio

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