Descartes' Error
Mentioned 3 times across 3 shows · first heard Aug 2025 on Ologies with Alie Ward.
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Michael Pollan👍 Recommends
…discussing damasio's work on emotions and decision-making in consciousness
“And I also think, I mean, in a way, this is the lesson of Antonio Damasio's first book in 1994, Descartes' Error, it was called. And he was basically showing that feelings and emotions should be admitted into the decision-making process.”
The Ezra Klein Show — Michael Pollan’s Journey to the Borderlands of Consciousnessat 43:41
Jay Shetty👍 Recommends
…how emotion is essential for rational decision making and neuroscience
“Dr. Antonio Damasio is a renowned neuroscientist. His most influential work centers on how emotion is essential for rational decision-making, a direct challenge to the old-school belief that logic alone leads to better choices. His groundbreaking book, Descartes' Error, reshaped modern neuroscience by proving, we are not thinking machines that feel, we are feeling machines that think.”
On Purpose with Jay Shetty — Give Me 30 Minutes and You Will Never Struggle With a Decision Againat 23:52- JG
Joshua Greene👍 Recommends
…neuroscience book about emotion and decision making influenced greene's research
“And the way researchers who studied people like this, in particular, this is reported in a book called Descartes' Error by Antonio Damasio, which I read as an undergrad, said these people, they know the words, but they don't hear the music. They don't feel the music, that they don't have the emotional response. When I read that book, I literally jumped up and down on my bed when I got to that passage.”
Ologies with Alie Ward — Trolleyology (MORAL DILEMMAS + THE TROLLEY PROBLEM) with Joshua Greeneat 21:15
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