Descartes' Error: Emotion, Reason, and the Human Brain

Descartes' Error: Emotion, Reason, and the Human Brain

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Adolphs cites Damasio's book on what happens when frontal lobe damage removes emotional responding.

Why it came up

  • Damasio's case that without emotion, decision-making collapses
  • Adolphs was starting out in Damasio's lab when it was published
  • The counterweight to treating feelings as noise

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