According to neuroscientist Antonio Damasio, it's our feelings, not high-level brain function, that make us human.

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When Father Hermann Geissler of the Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith called attention to Blessed John Henry Newman’s teaching on conscience, he was making an important point. This is the ...

Neuroscientist Antonio Damasio believes that the link between brain and body is the key to understanding consciousness. In his latest book, Feeling & Knowing: Making Minds Conscious, he explains why.

Hint: When you use the word “conscience” and the phrase, “I just feel that …” you can be sure that you are doing it wrong. Hint: When you use the word “conscience” and the phrase, “I just feel that …” ...

A molecular geneticist at the University of Surrey says the human "mind" is electromagnetic. Mind-body dualism is one of philosophy's oldest questions, boosted this time by science. Is the answer as ...