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Strange Order of Things: Life, Feeling, and the Making of Cultures | Antonio Damasio

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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. www.antoniodamasio.com

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Strange Order of Things: Life, Feeling, and the Making of Cultures | Antonio Damasio

Can societies finally succeed at introducing, by secular or religious means, an intelligent and well-rewarded form of altruism such that it would replace the self-absorption that now reigns? What will it take for such efforts to succeed?

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Strange Order of Things: Life, Feeling, and the Making of Cultures | Antonio Damasio

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After a dense and rather repetitive introduction to the hypothesis, this becomes a fascinating account of feelings as a motive force in the evolution of the human species and its cultures.

Kalalalatja I have read some of Damasio‘s research for uni, and his writing was so repetitive, dense and confusing. 6y

Moray_Reads @Kalalalatja I found some of the chapters like that, especially early on when he was setting it out. That was actually more confusing that just jumping in at the deep-end. Also, as a non-scientist some of the things he was suggesting were so self-evident (to me) that I could have done without the justifications! 😅 6y

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