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8 Reddit comments about The Feeling of What Happens: Body and Emotion in the Making of Consciousness:

u/PsychRabbit · 2 pointsr/philosophy

I'll second all of the suggestions to meditate, but given that this is /r/philosophy it might be a good idea to point you towards some literature.

In my experience, reading a bit of the meditations of Marcus Aurelius always puts me in a mood of calm and control, although Buddhist sutras are probably just as good.

If you want to actually read about the cognitive science behind mood and affect, I've heard good things about Antonio Damasio's older books. (Looking for Spinoza and The Feeling of What Happens.) His more recent books have had a less favorable reception. For a book specifically focused on meditation and the brain, you can't beat Zen and the Brain by James Austin.

u/myislanduniverse · 2 pointsr/explainlikeimfive

Affective Neuroscience, by Jaak Panksepp is a very heavy treatment of the topic, but very good.

The Feeling of What Happens, by Antonio Damasio is a little more coffee table/pop sciencey, but he's a very accomplished neuroscientist who is drawing on his clinical experiences.

Put simply, though, "affect," or emotion, is a subconscious body state. Hunger, fear, desire, rage, sadness, happiness/satisfaction are all collections of biological functions which place our organism in a state appropriate to its environment. Emotion is a fairly primitive degree of control over the entire biological system. Right above reflex.

Feeling is the conscious appreciation of your body experiencing one of these states, and attributing it to a specific perceptual stimulus, or abstracting one from experience.

We as humans also have a further degree of abstraction, where we can imagine ourselves feeling an emotion, and precipitate the physical response as if we were experiencing the stimulus. This is the basis for the emotional weight of things like art, music, and empathy.

u/QuirkySpiceBush · 2 pointsr/suggestmeabook

Here are some of my favorite popular books by academic researchers about consciousness:

u/[deleted] · 1 pointr/bestof

One who says we know nothing about consciousness hasn't read this

u/_Kita_ · 1 pointr/books

Thanks in advance! I'm a voracious reader and could always use some quality recommendations.

  1. The Three Musketeers
  2. Memoirs of a Geisha
  3. The Poisonwood Bible
  4. ASOIAF/Kingkiller Chronicles (EPIC! FANTASY! Not-crap writing (which plagues fantasy everywhere!)
  5. A Prayer for Owen Meany
  6. American Gods
  7. Rebecca (Gothic! Gorgeous!)
  8. The Lace Reader (WOOOOoooo, unreliable narrators!)
  9. The Time Traveler's Wife
  10. The Feeling of What Happens: Body and Emotion in the Making of Consciousness (Cognitive Science!)
u/Taome · 1 pointr/Neuropsychology

You might want to read more deeply into the notion that reason and emotion are "easily separated." See, e.g,

Robert Burton (neuroscientist), On Being Certain (see also this for a short intro to Burton's book)

Antonio Damasio (neuroscientist), Descartes’ Error: Emotion, Reason and the Human Brain and The Feeling of What Happens

u/shamelessintrovert · 1 pointr/Schizoid

Sorry, I'm not willing to wade through another wall of text with so little punctuation.

But I got through this:

> I don't understand what other people mean by "feeling" in expressions such as "talking about feelings" and "talking about emotions" and "describing feelings" and "describing emotions." I just guess.

Which honestly doesn't make a whole lot of sense to me unless you're alexithymic. And even then, there's little mystery to what those things mean - even to someone who is.

Might try one of Damasio's books? Would probably start with this one: https://www.amazon.com/Feeling-What-Happens-Emotion-Consciousness/dp/0156010755

u/chefranden · 1 pointr/Christianity

>I'd argue that the idea that consciousness is non-material is our basic intuition.

And that is all you have to go on. Intuition is not a terribly reliable source of information about the nature of real reality. By intuition the sun rises in the east, travels across the heavens, and sets in the west while the earth remains stationary.

I pointed to books in links above that show the material basis for consciousness. I'm not going to be able to reproduce it here. But if you want to credit intuition there seems to be enough information about the universe being material and none about it being non-material to intuit that consciousness is also material.

Some Books:

I Am a Strange Loop; Godel, Escher, Bach; Philosophy in the Flesh; The Feeling of What Happens; Descartes' Error; Self Comes to Mind

>Holy shit, how many times do I have to say that I think that the physical brain plays a vital role in consciousness before you stop trying to argue as if I was asserting something to the contrary?

How many times do I have to say that physical brain is the only thing in evidence? If it is the physical brain and something, produce the "and something". I can produce the physical brain. So it seems my task is done and yours has yet to begin.

Do you have to demonstrate the non-material scientifically? Well of course you do. You say you can't, yet at the same time want it to be the controlling stuff. How can it do that with no connection? And if it has a connection to the material, then you should be able to study it scientifically.