Evolution of Human Consciousness, With Words, Music and Brain Imagery


	Evolution of Human Consciousness, With Words, Music and Brain Imagery

einbar

5-11-2009 4:24 PM

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Self Comes To Mind is a collaboration between composer Bruce Adolphe and neuroscientist Antonio Damasio, known for his research and writing on the evolution of human consciousness.

"My view is that we evolved mind first, in a very broad sense," Damasio explains. "And eventually we also evolved the possibility of knowing that we have a mind. That is a process that begins with the construction of the self … and it is out of that which comes our sense of discovery — of our own existence, of our surroundings, and eventually of our own condition."

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5-11-2009 4:49 PM

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