The Strange Order of Things: Life, Feeling, and the Making of Cultures

Antonio Damasio · 2018

Index

  • Introduction
  • Part I: Life and Its Regulation
  • 1. On the Human Condition
  • 2. In a Region of Unlikeness
  • 3. Varieties of Homeostasis
  • 4. From Single Cells to Nervous Systems and Minds
  • Part II: Assembling the Cultural Mind
  • 5. The Origin of Minds
  • 6. Expanding Minds
  • 7. Affect
  • 8. The Construction of Feelings
  • Part III: The Cultural Mind at Work
  • 9. Consciousness
  • 10. Cultures
  • 11. Medicine, Immortality, and Algorithms
  • 12. The Future

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"Feelings are the mental expressions of homeostasis."
"Life and mind are continuous, not separate."

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