FEELING & KNOWING: Unlocking the Secrets of Consciousness

The Next Big Idea

Next Big Idea Club

Science, Society & Culture, Social Sciences, Education

4.4 • 1.3K Ratings

🗓️ 27 October 2021

⏱️ 61 minutes

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Summary

Look up the term “Renaissance man” in the dictionary, and you'll probably find a photo of Antonio Damasio. He is a polyglot, an avid reader of fiction, a classical music aficionado, a student of modern philosophy, and an enthusiastic collector of art. This on top of his day job as a neuroscientist, professor, co-director of USC’s Brain and Creativity Institute, and author of brilliant books like “Descartes’ Error” and, most recently, “Feeling & Knowing.” Today, he chats with Rufus about where our feelings come from, how our brains and bodies interact, and the orgiastic pleasure of social admiration (and no, that is not a typo).

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0:00.0	There's construction going on in the building and the contractor promised me yesterday that
0:11.1	he would stop everything and they're not going to drill or knock or do anything like that
0:15.7	to you.
0:16.7	I've disconnected phones and so it's all for you.
0:23.0	I'm Rufus Griskem and this is the next big idea.
0:26.8	I'm in a separate space because we have construction going on next to our apartment in New York,
0:31.3	so I'm very familiar with the dynamics.
0:33.9	So where about in New York?
0:35.2	I'm currently in the meat packing district, which this is very nice, has really been reinvented
0:40.7	of all that I've lived in New York City now for 20 years and no neighborhood has changed
0:44.7	more dramatically than the meat packing district, which used to be a place where meat was packed.
0:49.2	As you may remember.
0:50.6	Right.
0:51.6	Yeah.
0:52.6	Last week on the show, I talked with big thinkers whose ideas might just change the way you
0:57.4	see the world.
0:58.8	But we like to ease into it.
1:00.3	How's the weather today?
1:01.5	The weather, it's pure.
1:02.5	Oh my gosh.
1:03.5	Antonio, it's a perfect day.
1:04.5	It's 73 degrees and I'm feeling homeostasis.
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