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Constructing Consciousness

What is consciousness? This primal question has occupied humanity since we gained the language to ask it. In his new book "Self Comes to Mind: Constructing the Conscious Brain," Antonio Damasio investigates how new discoveries in neuroscience can shed light on the evolution and emergence of the conscious self.

What is consciousness? This primal question has occupied humanity since we gained the language to ask it. In his new book “Self Comes to Mind: Constructing the Conscious Brain,” Antonio Damasio investigates how new discoveries in neuroscience can shed light on the evolution and emergence of the conscious self.

Guests:

Antonio Damasio, author and professor of neuroscience at the University of Southern California

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