Brain Science Podcast discussion

I wasn't able to interview Antonio Damasio last year like I hoped, so I decided to post a book review episode as a lead in to next month's interview with Jaak Panksepp. BSP 90 is a review of Self Comes to Mind: Constructing the Conscious Brain by Antonio Damasio.

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He invented many constructs and definitions. Such are more than assumptions and reflect his work and expertise. I like the ideas he expressed about self which are a good perspective, carrying forward that theme from the previous BSP episode.

I'm in the midst of reading both Damasio's "Self Comes to Mind" as well as Panksepp's "Archeology of Mind" and I'm finding a great deal of synergy between their viewpoints. Both are immensely enlightening wrt how consciousness emerges from the brain and both provide supporting viewpoints for what I've long suspected - that consciousness originates in the ancient structures within the brainstem.

Dean wrote: "I'm in the midst of reading both Damasio's "Self Comes to Mind" as well as Panksepp's "Archeology of Mind" and I'm finding a great deal of synergy between their viewpoints. Both are immensely enlig..."

I agree. That is why I posted the review of Self Comes to Mind: Constructing the Conscious Brain immediately before the interview with Jaak Panksepp.