From feeling to knowing with Antonio Damasio - a podcast by The Decision Lab

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In this episode of the Decision Corner, Brooke speaks with Antonio Damasio - David Dornsife Chair in Neuroscience at the University of Southern California and author of Feeling and Knowing: Making Minds Conscious.


Some of the topics discussed include:


- Why feelings are integral to our understanding of consciousness.


- The evolutionary origins of our nervous systems and eventually, our ability to have and regulate our feelings.


- How feelings have been overlooked in scientific explanations of consciousness, and why a paradigm shift is important.


- Challenges and opportunities around A.I. - how can we make robots have feelings?


- The importance of understanding the unique way human consciousness developed, and what it can teach us about our future selves, as well as our technological developments.

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