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The Strange Order of Things

Life, Feeling, and the Making of Cultures

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The Strange Order of Things

By: Antonio Damasio
Narrated by: Steve West, 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. Biological Sciences Biology Customs & Traditions Science Social Sciences Sociology
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I truly enjoyed Mr. Damasio's account of consciousness, culture, arts, science and philosophy. A must read for those seeking a broad perspective on life.

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Is a fascinating and thoughtful work. Is not for beginners and requires a clear mind to digest

heavy but brilliant

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links together so many other texts I've read from neuroscience to anthropology!
im looking forward to the new book.

Delicious irony in 'thinking about feeling '.

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