Much like Candace Pert & Friedrich Nietzsche, Antonio Damasio believes that what the body feels is every bit as significant as what the mind thinks, and that both functions are inextricably intertwined.
This is according to John Banville, in his review of Antonio Damasio’s new book “The Strange Order of Things: Life, Feeling, and the Making of Cultures”.
Damasio writes about how the “the world of emotions and feelings” was the great force behind the creation of cultures and the “flowering of human consciousness”.
Dr. Pert, in her 1997 book, “Molecules of Emotion: Why you feel the way you feel”, also considered the relationship of emotions and feelings to both the conscious and unconscious mind, or ‘the bodymind’ as she liked to say.
She believed that their co-evolution, through the conservation of peptide receptors from simple cells, would evince (reveal) behaviors in response to those receptors, and continue to evolution into complex beings and their feelings.
Click here to read the full review of “The Strange Order of Things” in The Guardian.
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