Feeling existence…
An exclusive extract from Antonio Damasio’s ‘Natural Intelligence and the Logic of Consciousness’.
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An exclusive extract from Antonio Damasio’s ‘Natural Intelligence and the Logic of Consciousness’.
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Feeling existence | BPS
An exclusive extract from Antonio Damasio’s ‘Natural Intelligence and the Logic of Consciousness’ (Little, Brown Book Group).
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September 21, 2026 at 10:53 AM
Feeling existence…
An exclusive extract from Antonio Damasio’s ‘Natural Intelligence and the Logic of Consciousness’.
www.bps.org.uk/psychologist...
An exclusive extract from Antonio Damasio’s ‘Natural Intelligence and the Logic of Consciousness’.
www.bps.org.uk/psychologist...
this is something that humans have kind of characteristic biases at but are also VERY good at, and per a lot of neuroscience theories (specifically but not solely Damasio's somatic marker hypothesis) the kind of neuromodulatory valence signals that carry information about perceived risk /
May 23, 2026 at 2:11 PM
this is something that humans have kind of characteristic biases at but are also VERY good at, and per a lot of neuroscience theories (specifically but not solely Damasio's somatic marker hypothesis) the kind of neuromodulatory valence signals that carry information about perceived risk /
Antonio Damasio's book Feeling and Knowing makes my hair stand on end. First chapter truth bomb: there is no consciousness without sensation.
September 8, 2025 at 4:47 PM
Antonio Damasio's book Feeling and Knowing makes my hair stand on end. First chapter truth bomb: there is no consciousness without sensation.
Mason Gooding’s wrap, Edgar Cerro’s smoke, & Bruno Damásio’s bulge - buff.ly/o0uI3Ud
December 6, 2025 at 7:15 PM
Mason Gooding’s wrap, Edgar Cerro’s smoke, & Bruno Damásio’s bulge - buff.ly/o0uI3Ud
Horde of the Counterwind, Alexander Dickow's translation of Alain Damasio's La Horde du Contrevent = a masterpiece.
French #SFinTranslation
French #SFinTranslation
August 28, 2026 at 12:03 AM
Horde of the Counterwind, Alexander Dickow's translation of Alain Damasio's La Horde du Contrevent = a masterpiece.
French #SFinTranslation
French #SFinTranslation
does a C. elegans simulation, or Man and Damasio’s soft robots, or whatever else deserve rights because they have a homeostatic drive for viability and continuity? if not, what do you infer is happening differently inside current or hypothetical systems that informs the distinction?
September 4, 2026 at 3:16 PM
does a C. elegans simulation, or Man and Damasio’s soft robots, or whatever else deserve rights because they have a homeostatic drive for viability and continuity? if not, what do you infer is happening differently inside current or hypothetical systems that informs the distinction?
And neuroscience - Damasio's work for example.
August 29, 2024 at 3:39 PM
And neuroscience - Damasio's work for example.
I'm beginning my journey with Alexander Dickow's translation from the French of Alain Damasio's HORDE OF THE COUNTER WIND, a 500+page experience. As Dickow says, "To translate the wind is no easy task, but one may learn to read it." #SFinTranslation
August 18, 2026 at 5:48 PM
I'm beginning my journey with Alexander Dickow's translation from the French of Alain Damasio's HORDE OF THE COUNTER WIND, a 500+page experience. As Dickow says, "To translate the wind is no easy task, but one may learn to read it." #SFinTranslation
Some of my favorite books are nonfiction.
One of my favorites, The Great Deluge by Douglas Brinkley, an accounting of Hurricane Katrina.
I also enjoyed Antonio Damasio's books on neuroscience.
One of my favorites, The Great Deluge by Douglas Brinkley, an accounting of Hurricane Katrina.
I also enjoyed Antonio Damasio's books on neuroscience.
Cannot tell you how depressing it is to read that people are simply refusing to read nonfiction after you’ve worked really hard to write a nonfiction book you believe in, in case anyone is wondering why I’m posting so much about my book which comes out in a few weeks #BookSky
March 6, 2026 at 2:59 PM
Some of my favorite books are nonfiction.
One of my favorites, The Great Deluge by Douglas Brinkley, an accounting of Hurricane Katrina.
I also enjoyed Antonio Damasio's books on neuroscience.
One of my favorites, The Great Deluge by Douglas Brinkley, an accounting of Hurricane Katrina.
I also enjoyed Antonio Damasio's books on neuroscience.
another problem for the LLM consciousness bros is Antonio Damasio's somatic marker hypothesis. have they even heard of it before
March 7, 2026 at 6:04 PM
another problem for the LLM consciousness bros is Antonio Damasio's somatic marker hypothesis. have they even heard of it before
Enjoying Damasio's Looking for Spinoza.
December 18, 2024 at 1:30 PM
Enjoying Damasio's Looking for Spinoza.
Damasio's seduction for some chicken. #tuxedocat
March 5, 2025 at 10:05 PM
Damasio's seduction for some chicken. #tuxedocat
I assume that's just an awkward reference to Antonio Damasio's Fundamental Feelings and similar concepts like homeostatic emotions
there's a framework wherein emotions are signals (including hunger/thirst, fatigue, pain) and closer to “real emotion” than social constructs like “happy” or “jealous”
there's a framework wherein emotions are signals (including hunger/thirst, fatigue, pain) and closer to “real emotion” than social constructs like “happy” or “jealous”
November 25, 2025 at 8:13 PM
I assume that's just an awkward reference to Antonio Damasio's Fundamental Feelings and similar concepts like homeostatic emotions
there's a framework wherein emotions are signals (including hunger/thirst, fatigue, pain) and closer to “real emotion” than social constructs like “happy” or “jealous”
there's a framework wherein emotions are signals (including hunger/thirst, fatigue, pain) and closer to “real emotion” than social constructs like “happy” or “jealous”
I’m curious what you think plants have if not sentience? Or what the higher levels you call consciousness actually evolved from? What do you think of Damasio’s latest paper about affect and interoception being the basis of consciousness?
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The physiology of interoception and its adaptive role in consciousness
Abstract. The interoceptive nervous system uses signalling mechanisms distinct from those of exteroceptive, voluntary motor, cognitive and linguistic proce
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February 13, 2026 at 2:55 PM
I’m curious what you think plants have if not sentience? Or what the higher levels you call consciousness actually evolved from? What do you think of Damasio’s latest paper about affect and interoception being the basis of consciousness?
royalsocietypublishing.org/rstb/article...
royalsocietypublishing.org/rstb/article...
Wonderful read. This made me think of Martin Buber's "I-Thou" and Gadamer's hermeneutics; though I only have a faint grasp of both, I could be wrong.
And I still am stuck on Damasio's "We are not thinking machines that feel; we are feeling machines that think". SoL misses this completely.
And I still am stuck on Damasio's "We are not thinking machines that feel; we are feeling machines that think". SoL misses this completely.
August 11, 2026 at 10:44 PM
Wonderful read. This made me think of Martin Buber's "I-Thou" and Gadamer's hermeneutics; though I only have a faint grasp of both, I could be wrong.
And I still am stuck on Damasio's "We are not thinking machines that feel; we are feeling machines that think". SoL misses this completely.
And I still am stuck on Damasio's "We are not thinking machines that feel; we are feeling machines that think". SoL misses this completely.
oh book: maybe damasio's the feeling of what happens!
July 26, 2025 at 2:21 AM
oh book: maybe damasio's the feeling of what happens!
For me Hofstadter's "I am a strange loop", Damasio's "The feeling of what happens" (or more the "feeling" of it, book was hard to understand) and online lectures by Sapolsky clearly lay the ground for that final step
January 27, 2026 at 2:22 PM
For me Hofstadter's "I am a strange loop", Damasio's "The feeling of what happens" (or more the "feeling" of it, book was hard to understand) and online lectures by Sapolsky clearly lay the ground for that final step
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'[Antonio Damasio's] vision poses a clear limit to the development of AI: no matter how much progress we make in the creation of autonomous systems, we cannot confuse computational capacity with real intelligence
'[Antonio Damasio's] vision poses a clear limit to the development of AI: no matter how much progress we make in the creation of autonomous systems, we cannot confuse computational capacity with real intelligence
Embodied AI and the limit of consciousness: Antonio Damasio's vision - Fundación Innovación Bankinter
Antonio Damasio debunks the myth of consciousness in AI: without a body, without homeostasis and without feelings, artificial intelligence will never be truly conscious. Discover his analysis at the F...
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August 9, 2025 at 4:00 PM
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'[Antonio Damasio's] vision poses a clear limit to the development of AI: no matter how much progress we make in the creation of autonomous systems, we cannot confuse computational capacity with real intelligence
'[Antonio Damasio's] vision poses a clear limit to the development of AI: no matter how much progress we make in the creation of autonomous systems, we cannot confuse computational capacity with real intelligence
There's micro-moments of positivity shared resonance from Barbara Friedrickson. Infinite Relationality from @jemgilbert.bsky.social Antonio Damasio's Spinozan 'consciousness' and this...
Our Brains 'Sync Up' When We Collaborate share.google/E0StLXR1xhRT...
Our Brains 'Sync Up' When We Collaborate share.google/E0StLXR1xhRT...
Our Brains Really Do 'Sync Up' When We Collaborate, Study Reveals
Ever experienced a moment of flow when working with another human to achieve a common goal, almost as if you and your collaborator are tuned in to each other's brains? You may have literally been 'in ...
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December 9, 2025 at 3:31 PM
There's micro-moments of positivity shared resonance from Barbara Friedrickson. Infinite Relationality from @jemgilbert.bsky.social Antonio Damasio's Spinozan 'consciousness' and this...
Our Brains 'Sync Up' When We Collaborate share.google/E0StLXR1xhRT...
Our Brains 'Sync Up' When We Collaborate share.google/E0StLXR1xhRT...
My background is partly in ecological anthropology, so I tend towards discussions that include embodiment and actually-existing intelligence rather than considering what constitutes intelligence via cognition. I prefer things like Antonio Damasio's The Strange Order of Things.
June 6, 2026 at 4:38 PM
My background is partly in ecological anthropology, so I tend towards discussions that include embodiment and actually-existing intelligence rather than considering what constitutes intelligence via cognition. I prefer things like Antonio Damasio's The Strange Order of Things.
I am thrilled to announce the publication in October 2026 of my translation of Alain Damasio's Horde du Contrevent, under the title The Horde of the Counterwind. It's been a long wait, but it's finally going to appear; it's official!
January 22, 2026 at 3:08 AM
I am thrilled to announce the publication in October 2026 of my translation of Alain Damasio's Horde du Contrevent, under the title The Horde of the Counterwind. It's been a long wait, but it's finally going to appear; it's official!
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August 8, 2026 at 10:10 PM
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I’m going to use Damasio’s entry in this (link at bottom ) as a summary of his, and possibly Solm’s and your, current position. I think I can put this into the perspective of psychules, but I’ll wait til you finish Frankish.
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Volume 380 Issue 1939 | Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B | The Royal Society
Influential themed journal issues across the life sciences.
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February 10, 2026 at 4:33 PM
I’m going to use Damasio’s entry in this (link at bottom ) as a summary of his, and possibly Solm’s and your, current position. I think I can put this into the perspective of psychules, but I’ll wait til you finish Frankish.
royalsocietypublishing.org/rstb/issue/3...
royalsocietypublishing.org/rstb/issue/3...
Reading about empathy this morning for my neuropsychoanalysis class
The Basch article is an interesting little relic in the turn to affect theory in American psychoanalysis and self psychology since it was produced before Panksepp and Damasio’s theory became hegemonic and draws upon Tomkins instead
The Basch article is an interesting little relic in the turn to affect theory in American psychoanalysis and self psychology since it was produced before Panksepp and Damasio’s theory became hegemonic and draws upon Tomkins instead
February 5, 2026 at 4:54 PM
Reading about empathy this morning for my neuropsychoanalysis class
The Basch article is an interesting little relic in the turn to affect theory in American psychoanalysis and self psychology since it was produced before Panksepp and Damasio’s theory became hegemonic and draws upon Tomkins instead
The Basch article is an interesting little relic in the turn to affect theory in American psychoanalysis and self psychology since it was produced before Panksepp and Damasio’s theory became hegemonic and draws upon Tomkins instead