Digging into our consciousness
Friday, May 13, 2011 - 19:00
in Psychology & Sociology
USC's Dr. Antonio Damasio's latest work, 'Self Comes to Mind,' explores how consciousness evolved and how it contributes to our culture.Dr. Antonio Damasio, a neuroscientist and director of the Brain and Creativity Institute at USC, is best known for his pioneering work on how the brain generates emotion and how emotion, in turn, helps people make decisions. His books "Descartes' Error" and "Looking for Spinoza" were international bestsellers. His latest work, "Self Comes to Mind," extends his theories and adds new facts to the ever-vexing question of consciousness — what it is, why it evolved and how it contributes to human culture.