Damasio's Somatic Marker Hypothesis

[golsno147]

Damassio , more than any other contemporary writer, has come close to understanding emotion but this guy and Damassio fail to set clear parameters between cognitive activity during appraisal of the stimulus as perceived,, the physiological changes induced and the actual. nature of the subjective experience e.g. Feeling as thought v. feeling as sensation, drives or impulses to respond v.responses based on "rational "evaluation. The subject , of course, remains a semantic nightmare

[davius4321]

A minor error in the description box: it's Descartes' Error, and not Darwin's error.

[conferencereport]

Thanks for the heads up. Duly corrected.

Fred

[2bsirius]

Another excellent thought experiment...an experiment that demonstrates the complexity of the debates about consciousness....