In questa interessante video-presentazione tenuta al recente TED, il neurologo e saggista portoghese Antonio Damasio utilizza una semplice domanda per offrirci una visione di come il nostro cervello crea la coscienza di sé :
Ogni mattina, tutti noi ci svegliamo e riprendiamo coscienza: si tratta di un fenomeno meraviglioso ma, cosa riprendiamo esattamente ?
TED Talks - Antonio Damasio: Comprendere la Coscienza
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Trascrizione integrale del testo : I'm here to talk about the wonder and the mystery The wonder is about the fact that we all woke up this morning the amazing return of our conscious mind. We recovered minds with a complete sense of self and a complete sense of our own existence, yet we hardly ever pause to consider this wonder. because without having this possibility of conscious minds, we would have no knowledge whatsoever we would have no knowledge whatsoever about the world. We would have no pains, but also no joys. We would have no access to love or to the ability to create. And of course, Scott Fitzgerald said famously that "he who invented consciousness would have a lot to be blamed for." that without consciousness, he would have no access to true happiness and even the possibility of transcendence. So much for the wonder, now for the mystery. that has really been extremely hard to elucidate. All the way back into early philosophy and certainly throughout the history of neuroscience, this has been one mystery that has always resisted elucidation, has got majo
Transcript of Antonio Damasio's Ted talk. I'm here to talk about the wonder and the mystery of conscious minds. The wonder is about the fact that we all woke up this morning and we had with it the amazing return of our conscious mind. We recovered minds with a complete sense of self and a complete sense of our own existence, yet we hardly ever pause to consider this wonder. We should, in fact, because without having this possibility of conscious minds, we would have no knowledge whatsoever about our humanity; we would have no knowledge whatsoever about the world. We would have no pains, but also no joys. We would have no access to love or to the ability to create. And of course, Scott Fitzgerald said famously that "he who invented consciousness would have a lot to be blamed for." But he also forgot that without consciousness, he would have no access to true happiness and even the possibility of transcendence. So much for the wonder, now for the mystery. This is a mystery that has really been extremely hard to elucidate.&nbs
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Sono qui per parlarvi della meraviglia e del mistero della mente cosciente. La meraviglia è legata al fatto che questa mattina ci siamo svegliati, e, insieme al nostro risveglio, c'è stato l'incredibile ritorno della nostra coscienza. La nostra mente aveva un senso completo di sé e un senso completo della nostra esistenza, eppure noi ci soffermiamo a mala pena su questa meraviglia. Dovremmo, invece, farlo, perché se fossimo privati della possibilità di una mente cosciente, non avremmo nessuna consapevolezza della nostra umanità, e non avremmo nessuna consapevolezza del mondo. Non proveremmo dolore, ma nemmeno gioia. Non avremmo accesso all'amore né alla capacità di creare. C
Antonio Damasio: The quest to understand consciousness
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