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Why Feeling is the Key to Consciousness
In his new book, “Natural Intelligence and the Logic of Consciousness,” pioneering neuroscientist and NGP Faculty Antonio Damasio synthesizes his decades of research in neurobiology and philosophy of mind into a central idea: we are conscious because we feel. “It is traditionally said that we are able to feel our feelings because we are conscious,” he writes, but instead, “we must be able to feel in order to become conscious.” Damasio was interviewed on KQED about his lifetime of research into the mind and his thoughts on the possibility of conscious AI.
