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SUMMARY:📚 Self Comes to Mind: Constructing the Conscious Brain by Antonio D
 amasio
LOCATION:Purecraft Bar & Kitchen
DESCRIPTION:Saved in Palaner as: saved\n\nPalaner match: 27% · why: lots of
  people going\n\n📚 Self Comes to Mind: Constructing the Conscious Brain\nb
 y Antonio Damasio\n\nFormat\nSelective Reading\nof specified sections in c
 hapters: 1\,2\,8\,9 which should give around 65 pages.\n\nNote\ntime is mo
 ving to 7pm.\n\nAbout\nWhat is consciousness? We all experience it every w
 aking moment\, yet it remains one of the deepest mysteries in science and 
 philosophy. We know we have a mind—but where does it come from? How can a 
 three-pound organ give rise to thoughts\, feelings\, memories\, and the un
 mistakable sense that there is an “I” experiencing the world?\n\nEvery mom
 ent\, you see\, hear\, remember\, feel\, and think. But have you ever wond
 ered how all of these become your experience? How does a living brain prod
 uce not only thoughts and emotions\, but the feeling that they are happeni
 ng to you?\n\nIn this session\, we’ll explore one of the most profound que
 stions in philosophy and neuroscience: How does the self come to mind? Dra
 wing on Antonio Damasio’s Self Comes to Mind\, we’ll examine how conscious
 ness\, feelings\, and our sense of self emerge from the living brain—and w
 hat this means for personal identity\n\nReading required:\nchapter 1. Awak
 ening (~20 pages)\nAwakening\nAn Integrated Perspective\nA Preview of Main
  Ideas\n\nAbout: How consciousness emerges from life itself and why unders
 tanding the mind begins with the living organism rather than the brain alo
 ne.\n---\n\n---\nchapter 2. From Life Regulation to Biological Value (~20 
 pages)\nNatural Will\nBiological Value\nConnecting Homeostasis\, Value\, a
 nd Consciousness\n\nAbout: How homeostasis gives rise to biological value\
 , feelings\, and the motivations that shape all behaviour.\n---\nchapter 8
 . Building a Conscious Mind (~20 pages)\nA Working Hypothesis\nConstructin
 g the Core Self\n\nAbout: Damasio’s model of how the brain constructs cons
 ciousness and the moment-to-moment experience of the self.\n---\n\n---\nch
 apter 9. The Autobiographical Self (~5 pages)\nMemory Made Conscious\nThe 
 Issue of Coordination\n\nAbout: How memory creates personal identity by tr
 ansforming momentary consciousness into the story of a life.
URL:https://www.meetup.com/philosophy-and-psychology-book-club-birmingham/e
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