From feeling to knowing with Antonio Damasio

In this episode of the Decision Corner, Brooke speaks with Antonio Damasio - David Dornsife Chair in Neuroscience at the University of Southern California and author of Feeling and Knowing: Making Minds Conscious. Some of the topics discussed include: - Why feelings are integral to our understanding of consciousness. - The evolutionary origins of our nervous systems and eventually, our ability to have and regulate our feelings. - How feelings have been overlooked in scientific explanations of consciousness, and why a paradigm shift is important. - Challenges and opportunities around A.I. - how can we make robots have feelings? - The importance of understanding the unique way human consciousness developed, and what it can teach us about our future selves, as well as our technological developments.