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The strange order of things : life, feeling, and the making of cultures / Antonio Damasio.

By: Material type: TextTextPublisher: New York : Pantheon Books, [2018]Copyright date: ©2018Edition: First editionDescription: xi, 310 pages ; 25 cmContent type:
  • text
Media type:
  • unmediated
Carrier type:
  • volume
ISBN:
  • 9780307908759
  • 0307908755
Subject(s):
Contents:
On the human condition -- In a region of unlikeness -- Varieties of homeostasis -- From single cells to nervous systems and minds -- The origin of minds -- Expanding minds -- Affect -- The construction of feelings -- Consciousness -- On cultures -- Medicine, immortality, and algorithms -- On the human condition now -- The strange order of things.
Summary: "A pathbreaking investigation into homeostasis, the condition of that regulates human physiology within the range that makes possible not only the survival but also the flourishing of life. Antonio Damasio makes clear that we descend biologically, psychologically, and even socially from a long lineage that begins with single living cells; that our minds and cultures are linked by an invisible thread to the ways and means of ancient unicellular life and other primitive life-forms; and that inherent in our very chemistry is a powerful force, a striving toward life maintenance that governs life in all its guises, including the development of genes that help regulate and transmit life."--supplied by publisher.
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Enhanced descriptions from Syndetics:

From one of our preeminent neuroscientists: a landmark reflection that spans the biological and social sciences, offering a new way of understanding the origins of life, feeling, and culture.

The Strange Order of Things is a pathbreaking investigation into homeostasis, the condition of that regulates human physiology within the range that makes possible not only the survival but also the flourishing of life. Antonio Damasio makes clear that we descend biologically, psychologically, and even socially from a long lineage that begins with single living cells; that our minds and cultures are linked by an invisible thread to the ways and means of ancient unicellular life and other primitive life-forms; and that inherent in our very chemistry is a powerful force, a striving toward life maintenance that governs life in all its guises, including the development of genes that help regulate and transmit life. In The Strange Order of Things, Damasio gives us a new way of comprehending the world and our place in it.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

"A pathbreaking investigation into homeostasis, the condition of that regulates human physiology within the range that makes possible not only the survival but also the flourishing of life. Antonio Damasio makes clear that we descend biologically, psychologically, and even socially from a long lineage that begins with single living cells; that our minds and cultures are linked by an invisible thread to the ways and means of ancient unicellular life and other primitive life-forms; and that inherent in our very chemistry is a powerful force, a striving toward life maintenance that governs life in all its guises, including the development of genes that help regulate and transmit life."--supplied by publisher.

On the human condition -- In a region of unlikeness -- Varieties of homeostasis -- From single cells to nervous systems and minds -- The origin of minds -- Expanding minds -- Affect -- The construction of feelings -- Consciousness -- On cultures -- Medicine, immortality, and algorithms -- On the human condition now -- The strange order of things.

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