# Self Comes to Mind

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- Book: [Self Comes to Mind](https://www.bookquiver.com/antonio-damasio/self-comes-to-mind) ([Self Comes to Mind.md](https://www.bookquiver.com/antonio-damasio/self-comes-to-mind.md))
- Authors: [António Damásio](https://www.bookquiver.com/antonio-damasio)
- Publisher: Vintage
- ISBN: 978-00-9949-802-5
- Pages: 384
- Published: 2012-01-05
- Language: en_GB
- Binding: Softcover

## Description

‘Will give pleasure to anyone interested in original thinking about the brain…Breathtakingly original’ Financial Times The trailblazing investigation of a question that has confounded us for centuries: how is consciousness created? In Self Comes to Mind , world-renowned neuroscientist Antonio Damasio goes against the long-standing idea that consciousness is separate from the body, presenting compelling new scientific evidence that consciousness - what we think of as a mind with a self - is in fact a biological process created by a living organism. His view entails a radical change in the way the history of the conscious mind is viewed and told, suggesting that the brain’s development of a human self is a challenge to nature’s indifference. Groundbreaking ideas and beautifully written, this is essential reading for anyone curious about the foundations of mind and self.