Antonio Damasio challenges traditional ideas about emotions and rationality. Science, even modern neuroscience, has tended to concentrate on the cognitive aspects of brain functions, overlooking emotions as the source of a person’s true brain. 

View Antonio Damasios talk about the role of emotions (via youtube, part 1 and part 2, video describtion in English, translated by google from spanish). 

Maybe “Cogito ergo sum” (”I think, therefore I am”) should be replaced by ” I feel, therefore I am”… 

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