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Descartes' Error—Emotion, Reason, and the Human Brain

In Descartes' Error, Antonio Damasio provides and introduction to the relationship between emotion, reason, and the human brain by approaching his work quite rationally and casually—through conversation with the reader. Through his exploration of the connection between the body, brain, and mind, he explains things that are fact, things that could become fact, or things that he plainly doesn't know will come into effect whatsoever. He is very rationally throwing many ideas and hypotheses out there, and exploring their possibilities with past and future scientific evidence.

Damasio begins his exploration with the story of Phineas Gage. This gives insight on an extreme example of what the author thinks about the reasoning of the person and society. It is absolutely fascinating that it seemed that Gage was normal in every way; being able to speak, function, walk, and retain intellectual value in his life. And yet, he was......

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