In this video, Antonio Damasio discusses the inspiration for his forthcoming Self Comes to Mind, going on sale from Pantheon Books November 9. Check out Damasio’s fall author tour.
ANTONIO DAMASIO is the director of the University of Southern California’s Brain and Creativity Institute. Damasio’s books include Descartes’ Error: Emotion, Reason, and the Human Brain; The Feeling of What Happens: Body and Emotion in the Making of Consciousness (named one of the ten best books of the year by the New York Times Book Review); and Looking for Spinoza: Joy, Sorrow, and the Feeling Brain. He lives in Los Angeles.