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Antonio Damasio · 2003
Damasio's patients could reason flawlessly and still wreck their lives, because the part of them that felt the difference between options had gone quiet. From that he built the opposite of the old story: feeling is not the enemy of good judgment but an input to it, the body tagging our choices with value before we deliberate.
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What this book knows
Feelings are the mind's reading of the body's state, and joy and sorrow track the organism's flourishing — recovering Spinoza's insight that reason and emotion are one.
Illuminates
Editor’s framing
This is the ground of Vela's attention to the body in emotion and in writing — the felt sense that arrives before the reasoned account and shapes it. Looking for Spinoza extends the somatic-marker argument into a theory of feeling as the mind's read on the body's state. It sits on the body-first side of the field's central divide, in tension with the constructionist account, and Vela uses it to take bodily knowing seriously without treating the gut as infallible.
Read alongside · the magazine
Feeling as input to reason — the somatic case for writing from the body.
Read alongside · the emotions
One pole of the feeling-brain Damasio reattaches to reason.
Scholars: Antonio Damasio
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