a) Of Antonio Damasio, consolidated Portuguese neurocientista in the United States: The conscience is product of the capacity of the organism to perceive its emotions and the environment and to react they.
b) Of Tarcísio Brito, Brazilian designer: It is in the distance where if it creates in the perception highest of the mental integration developed by the species.
2007-07-01 07:22:21 · 2 answers · asked by britotarcisio 6 in Science & Mathematics ➔ Biology
I'm not a neurobiologist but I don't like the "two minds" idea implied in A) above. One mind to have the emotion and another mind to observe the emotion. I much prefer to think that self-consciousness is an integrated process. Wherein the very act of having an emotion includes alerting you to that emotion.
2007-07-01 10:36:42 · answer #1 · answered by michaelhobbsphd 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
a.) makes the most sense to me. Whoever is right, you can bet that consciousness is an end-product of a very long and treacherous evolutionary process. I firmly believe that everything that makes us human can be found to one degree or another in the lower animals.
2007-07-01 23:20:15 · answer #2 · answered by Bob D1 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋