Integral Options Cafe: Antonio Damasio - Emotion, Feeling, and Social Behavior: The Bra... - 0 views
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his contention that consciousness is not merely a by-product of brain activity, but is a necessary function of the body as a whole, including the brain.
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he proposes at least four levels of self, from least complex to most complex:1. Neural Self (or proto-self) - a short term collection of neural patterns of activity which represent the current state of the organism2. Core Self - a second-order entity which maps the state of the proto-self in rather the same way the proto-self maps the current state of the body: whenever an encounter with an object impinges on the proto-self, the change is registered by activity in the core self3. Autobiographical Self - draws on permanent (though modifiable) memories instead of just the immediate experiences which power the core self. At this point, there is a real, though still pre-linguistic, sense of self. Damasio thinks chimpanzees and probably dogs enjoy this level of consciousness4. Reflective Self - greater use of longer-term memory, delivers the kind of foresighted, reflective consciousness which we typically associate with human beings
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In Damasio's view, one which I share, emotions are body states that then are interpreted by the brain to assign a label based on memory and previous learning.
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Those who were given no information or false information labeled their own experience in line with the behavior of the confederate, not having any other information on which to base their feelings.
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The researches suggest that emotion is based on arousal + cognition, on the assumption that most emotions share similar body-states.