Self Comes to Mind
by Antonio Damasio | 
Descartes' Error
by Antonio Damasio | 
The User Illusion
by Tor Norretranders | 
Phantoms in the Brain
by V. S. Ramachandran | 
Mapping the Mind
by Rita Carter | 
The Emotional Brain
by Joseph Ledoux | 
Phi
by Giulio Tononi |
Consciousness
by Susan Blackmore | 
Wider Than the Sky
by Gerald M. Edelman | 
The Master and His Emissary
by Iain McGilchrist | 
How the Mind Works
by Steven Pinker | 
Kluge
by Gary Marcus |
Introducing Mind & Brain
by Angus Gellatly |
Synaptic Self
by Joseph Ledoux | 
The Quest for Consciousness
by Christof Koch | 
Looking for Spinoza
by Antonio Damasio | 
The Language Instinct
by Steven Pinker | 
The Dragons of Eden
by Carl Sagan |
The Spell of the Sensuous
by David Abram | 
The Skeptics' Guide to the Universe
by Steven Novella |
The publication of this book is an event in the making. All over the world scientists, psychologists, and philosophers are waiting to read Antonio Damasio's new theory of the nature of consciousness and the construction of the self. A renowned and revered scientist and clinician, Damasio has spent decades following amnesiacs down hospital corridors, waiting for comatose patients to awaken, and devising ingenious research using PET scans to piece together the great puzzle of consciousness. In his bestselling Descartes' Error, Damasio revealed the critical importance of emotion in the making of reason. Building on this foundation, he now shows how consciousness is created. Consciousness is the feeling of what happens-our mind noticing the body's reaction to the world and responding to that experience. Without our bodies there can be no consciousness, which is at heart a mechanism for survival that engages body, emotion, and mind in the glorious spiral of human life. A hymn to the possibilities of human existence, a magnificent work of ingenious science, a gorgeously written book, The Feeling of What Happens is already being hailed as a classic.