{"id":178006,"date":"2023-12-10T16:24:20","date_gmt":"2023-12-10T22:24:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2023\/12\/the-strange-order-of-things-by-antonio-damasio-review-why-feelings-are-the-unstoppable-force"},"modified":"2023-12-10T16:24:20","modified_gmt":"2023-12-10T22:24:20","slug":"the-strange-order-of-things-by-antonio-damasio-review-why-feelings-are-the-unstoppable-force","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2023\/12\/the-strange-order-of-things-by-antonio-damasio-review-why-feelings-are-the-unstoppable-force","title":{"rendered":"The Strange Order of Things by Antonio Damasio review \u2014 why feelings are the unstoppable force"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/the-strange-order-of-things-by-antonio-damasio-review-why-feelings-are-the-unstoppable-forcer2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>The Strange Order of Things by Antonio Damasio review \u2013 why feelings are the unstoppable force.<\/p>\n<hr>\n<p>Nietzsche would have given four cheers for this intricately argued book, which is at once scientifically rigorous and humanely accommodating, and, so far as this reviewer can judge, revolutionary. Antonio Damasio, a professor of neuroscience, psychology and philosophy, sets out to investigate \u201cwhy and how we emote, feel, use feelings to construct our selves \u2026 and how brains interact with the body to support such functions\u201d. We are not floating seraphim, he reminds us, but bodies that think \u2013 and all the better for it.<\/p>\n<p>From Plato onwards, western philosophy has favoured mind over \u201cmere\u201d body, so that by the time we get to Descartes, the human has become hardly more than a brain stuck atop a stick, like a child\u2019s hobbyhorse. This is the conception of humanness that Damasio wishes to dismantle. For him, as for Nietzsche, what the body feels is every bit as significant as what the mind thinks, and further, both functions are inextricably intertwined. Indeed, from the very start, among the earliest primitive life forms, affect \u2013 \u201cthe world of emotions and feelings\u201d \u2013 was the force that drove unstoppably towards the flowering of human consciousness and the creation of cultures, Damasio insists.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Strange Order of Things by Antonio Damasio review \u2013 why feelings are the unstoppable force. Nietzsche would have given four cheers for this intricately argued book, which is at once scientifically rigorous and humanely accommodating, and, so far as this reviewer can judge, revolutionary. Antonio Damasio, a professor of neuroscience, psychology and philosophy, sets [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":709,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[47],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-178006","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-neuroscience"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/178006","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/709"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=178006"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/178006\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=178006"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=178006"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=178006"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}